Rajiv Gandhi death anniversary: PM Modi, Gandhi family pay tributes to late Prime Minister
Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to late PM Rajiv Gandhi on his death day on Tuesday.
PM Modi wrote on Twitter, “Tributes to former PM Shri Rajiv Gandhi on his death day.”
Congress and most of its leaders remembered the veteran politician with their tributes on social media whereas his relations and alternative party leaders visited Veer Bhumi in Indian capital to pay tributes.
Rajiv Gandhi’s son and Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Rajiv’s mate and UPA presiding officer Sonia Gandhi, his girl Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and her husband parliamentarian Vadra were among the numerous UN agency visited the memorial on Tuesday morning.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former President Pranab Mukherjee conjointly paid respect to Rajiv Gandhi.
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Born on August twenty, 1944, Rajiv Gandhi painted Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi parliamentary body fourfold. The seat is currently control by his son Rahul Gandhi.
A recipient of Bharat Ratna, Rajiv Gandhi served because the sixth Prime Minister of Asian nation from 1984 to 1989. He took workplace once the assassination of his mother, then prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1984.
Rajiv Gandhi was dead by a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorist throughout AN election rally in Tamil Nadu’s Sriperumbudur on could twenty one, 1991.
He was cremated at Veer Bhumi, placed on the banks of the stream Yamuna.
