President Pranab Mukherjee and Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari paid floral tributes at Rajiv Gandhi’s memorial Vir Bhumi’ in New Delhi.
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Sonia’s son and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, daughter Priyanka and her husband Robert Vadra also paid tributes at the samadhi.
Addressing a programme organised by the PCC’s Panchayati Raj Department and IT Cell to mark the occasion, Rawat said Rajiv Gandhi will always be remembered by the future generations as the father of India’s IT revolution.
Mr Gandhi, who had served as Prime Minister from 1984 to 1989, was assassinated by a suicide bomber on May 21, 1991 at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu while he was campaigning there for the 1991 Lok Sabha elections.
Today is his 71st birth anniversary and a special day for all Indians. He became the youngest PM of the country when he took office at the age of 40 after his mother Indira Gandhi’s assassination on October 31, 1984.
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Rajiv Gandhi’s decision to send IPKF to Sri Lanka as a peacekeeping force during its war with the LTTE caused significant controversy.
