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| Located next to Rajghat is the memorial of the
sixth and youngest prime minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi. Popularly
known as a man with great dreams for his country and his countrymen,
Rajiv Gandhi was the first son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi.
He was appointed as prime minister of the country within hours
of his mother's assassination in 1984 and two months later he
won a landslide general election. |
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| The Congress Party led by Rajeev Gandhi was
voted out of power in the next election. Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated
by an LTTE suicide bomber, at Sriperumbudur, 40-km away from
Chennai in Tamil Nadu, in May 1991, while campaigning for the
upcoming parliamentary elections. |
| His last rites were performed at Vir Bhumi and
a memorial was been set up to honor this young visionary leader.
He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously in the year 1991. |
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