Every year on May 21, India pays homage to the former prime minister and Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi who was assassinated during a political campaign, 30 years ago today.
This year, the Congress party has asked all its state units and frontal organisations to observe the death anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi as the day of “Seva and Sadbhavna” for the people who are grappling with Covid-19 pandemic.
Rahul Gandhi visited Veer Bhumi and paid floral tributes to his father. “Truth, Compassion, Progress,” he later wrote on Twitter with the hashtag #RememberingRajivGandhi.
Priyanka Gandhi also paid tributes to her father and in a tweet wrote, “There is no greater strength than love, no greater courage than kindness, no greater power than compassion, and no greater teacher than humility. #RememberingRajivGandhi”
She attached a photograph of her father speaking to the patients in a hospital.
Rajiv Gandhi took over as Congress president in 1984 after the assassination of his mother and then prime minister Indira Gandhi. Later, he became India’s youngest prime pinister at the age of 40.
On May 21, 1991, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by an LTTE suicide bomber at Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu