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Anti Terrorism Day : Congress pays tribute to former PM Rajiv Gandhi, the founder of ‘Modern India’
TIWN May 21, 2019
Anti Terrorism Day : Congress pays tribute to former PM Rajiv Gandhi, the founder of ‘Modern India’
PHOTO : Tripura Congress remembers Rajiv Gandhi on 28th death anniversary. TIWN Pic May 21

AGARTALA, May 21 (TIWN): Along with the nation, Tripura also remembered the Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 28th death anniversary on Tuesday who was assassinated by a suicide bomber during an election rally in Sriprumbudur in Tamil Nadu in the night of May 21, 1991.

He was the seventh Prime Minister of India, serving from 1984 to 1989, known as the founder of modern India introduced all kinds of technology in the country in his short life. 

Paying tribute to former Prime Minister, PCC chief Pradyot Manikya has hosted the National flag and began the session by singing National anthem, said sources.

The Congress in Tripura offered flower in the memory of former PM Gandhi at the Congress offices across the state.

The death anniversary of former PM of India, Rajiv Gandhi has been also observed as an Anti Terrorism Day to promote Peace and Harmony all over the Country. It was on May 21, 1991 that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi fell in the trap of terrorists.

The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the ex-Prime Minister of India, occurred as a result of a suicide bombing in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai, in Tamil Nadu, India on 21 May 1991. At least 14 others were also killed. It was carried out by Thenmozhi Rajaratnam, also known as Dhanu.

The attack was blamed on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a militant organization from Sri Lanka; at the time India had just ended its involvement, through the Indian Peace Keeping Force, in the Sri Lankan Civil War. Subsequent accusations of conspiracy have been addressed by two commissions of inquiry and have brought down at least one national government

Rajiv Gandhi was campaigning for the upcoming elections. On 21 May, after successfully campaigning in Visakhapatnam, his next stop was Sriperumbudur Tamil Nadu. About two hours after arriving in Madras (now Chennai), Rajiv Gandhi was driven by motorcade in a white Ambassador car to Sriperumbudur, stopping along the way at a few other election campaigning venues. When he reached a campaign rally in Sriperumbudur, he got out of his car and began to walk towards the dais where he would deliver a speech.

Along the way, he was garlanded by many well-wishers, Congress party workers and school children. At 22:21 the assassin, Dhanu, approached and greeted him. She then bent down to touch his feet and detonated an RDX explosive-laden belt tucked below her dress. Gandhi, his assassin and 14 others were killed in the explosion that followed. The assassination was caught on film by a local photographer, whose camera and film was found at the site though the photographer also died in the blast.

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