CONGRESS LEADERS PAY HOMAGE TO FORMER PM RAJIV GANDHI ON HIS DEATH ANNIVERSARY

(The Quiver): On former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s 31st death anniversary, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi paid homage to the late former PM at Vir Bhumi in Delhi.

Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi and AICC General Secretary Smt. @priyankagandhi pay their heartfelt tributes to former Prime Minister, Shri Rajiv Gandhi, on the occasion of his Martyrdom day, at Vir Bhumi, New Delhi. pic.twitter.com/b0CL47BXEa
— Congress (@INCIndia) May 21, 2022

Congress leaders P Chidambaram and Sachin Pilot paid homage to the former prime minister.

कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष श्रीमती सोनिया गांधी जी, महासचिव श्रीमती @priyankagandhi जी व वरिष्ठ कांग्रेस नेताओं ने पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री राजीव गांधी जी की पुण्यतिथि पर समाधि स्थल वीरभूमि पहुंच कर उन्हें श्रद्धांजलि अर्पित की।

राष्ट्र निर्माण में राजीव गांधी जी का योगदान अविस्मरणीय है। pic.twitter.com/Go408CWKzM
— Congress (@INCIndia) May 21, 2022

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday posted a tribute to his father former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi remembering him as a visionary leader and a wonderful father whom he dearly misses. “My father was a visionary leader whose policies helped shape modern India,” Rahul Gandhi wrote along with a video of Rajiv Gandhi’s speech: ‘India is an old country but a young nation. And like the young everywhere, we are impatient. I am young and I too have a dream. I dream of India strong, independent, self-reliant and in the forefront and the front rank of the nations of the world, in the service of mankind. I am committed to realising that dream through dedication, hard work and the collective determination of our people.”

On May 21, 1991, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide bomber during an election rally in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu. Fourteen others, including the suicide bomber Dhanu, were killed.