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Rahul, should go the credit of helping the Congress finally shed its façade of secularism. Rajiv Gandhi, India's youngest PM, had lots going for him until the Shah Bano case happened in 1986. The Congress party which had an absolute majority in...
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Why wait for the Uttar Pradesh elections?” Nitish said: “When the Mandal Commission recommendations were being discussed in Parliament, the then leader of the Opposition, Rajiv Gandhi, spoke three hours against the recommen-dations. And see what they...
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A photo taken on June 8, 1985 shows French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius (C), his Indian counterpart Rajiv Gandhi (L) during the 39th Aeronautical Show at Le Bourget airport, near Paris. View Photo »
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Rajiv Gandhi had envisioned that the India of 21st century will be led by the youth, and his decision to let youngsters at the age of 18 partake in the decision making process by letting them vote was a big step towards this commitment.
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"She had written letters to the chief ministers of UP, Bihar and West Bengal in this regard," he added. In later course, Rajiv Gandhi launched the GAP in 1986 and later Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared the Ganga as the National River and...
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State”, said Nitish, adding the reservation for OBCs was even there in the manifesto of our party. Nitish Kumar further reminded the people that even when the recommendations of the Mandal Commission were being debated in the Lok Sabha, the then Leader...
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The Nehru-Gandhi dynasty has enjoyed a status close to royalty. It has spawned three former prime ministers and in Priyanka the people of Amethi see another prime minister. The presence of the two children of Priyanka on the stage in Amethi and Rae...
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The IIM (Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management, Shillong) has agreed in principle to train 500 doctors of Meghalaya state health services over a period of three years
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Iqbal Masud, the civil servant and critic, supported the ban on The Satanic Verses in 1989. His reason was simple: if the book remained on sale in India, Muslims would march in protest, policemen would fire upon them, some of them would die, and no...
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A brought the concept of relative velocity to the forefront - whether or not one studied or remembered chapters in Junior College Physics. And what of the Santosh Trophy, the much revered National Football Championship? Ivo von Sajh-Scheich , the...
About Rajiv Gandhi
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Rajiv Gandhi (Hindi: राजीव गांधी Rājīv Gāndhī IPA: [raːdʒiːv gaːnd̪ʰiː]; 20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991), the elder son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi, was the 9th Prime Minister of India (and the third from the Nehru-Gandhi family) from his mother's death on 31 October 1984 until his resignation on 2 December 1989 following a general election defeat. Full Article
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National Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi casts his ballot, on May 20, 1991 at polling station in New Delhi for the first round of the general election.
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Rahul Gandhi (C) lights the funeral pyre of his slain father and former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi, on May 24, 1991 at Shakti Sthal in New Delhi, near Rajiv Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Gandhi (3rd R) and wife Sonia Gandhi (R) and an Hindu priest (2nd R). Gandhi was was killed...
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Members of All India Anti Terrorist Front (AIATF) pay tribute to former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in Amritsar on May 21, 2011. Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated during an electoral campaign on May 21, 1991 allegedly by members of the Sri Lankan separatist LTTE, in the town of...
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Congress Party president and chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), Sonia Gandhi (R) talks to her daugther Priyanka Gandhi (L) during a memorial ceremony for slain former Indian prime minister and husband Rajiv Gandhi on his 20th death anniversary in New Delhi on May 21,...
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In this Monday Oct.10, 2011, photo, Arputhammal , the mother of Arivu Perarivalan, one of the three convicted in the 1991 assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, looks at his photo in Chennai, India. Across most of India the three men on death row in the...
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In this Monday Oct.10, 2011, photo, Arputhammal , the mother of Arivu Perarivalan, one of the three convicted in the 1991 assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, breaks down while talking about her son in Chennai, India. Across most of India the three men on death...
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In this Monday Oct.10, 2011, photo, Arputhammal , the mother of Arivu Perarivalan, one of the three convicted in the 1991 assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, looks at symbolic nooses at the venue of a relay hunger protest, where people from different Tamil...
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In this Thursday Oct. 13, 2011, photo, Arputhammal, the mother of Arivu Perarivalan, one of the three convicted in the 1991 assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, speaks on a mobile phone outside Vellore prison, where her son has been imprisoned, in Chennai, India....
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A disabled man hugs Congress Party General Secretary and Trustee for Rajiv Gandhi Foundation Rahul Gandhi (C) as sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (R) smiles as they meet physically disabled scooter recipients in New Delhi on September 28, 2011. Some 220 three-wheeler scooters were...
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Congress Party General Secretary and Trustee for Rajiv Gandhi Foundation Rahul Gandhi (C) and sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (C back) meet physically disabled scooter recipients in New Delhi on September 28, 2011. Some 220 three-wheeler scooters were distributed to disabled people by the...
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Congress party lawmaker Rahul Gandhi, center, along with his niece and nephew pay floral tributes at the memorial of his father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his birth anniversary in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011. Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a suicide bomber...
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Members of All India Anti Terrorist Front (AIATF) hold a portrait of slain Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi during a memorial ceremony for Gandhi's 67th birth anniversary in Amritsar on August 20, 2011. Gandhi was assassinated during an electoral campaign on May 21, 1991, allegedly by...
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, left, talks with Congress party lawmaker Rahul Gandhi at a function to honor Gandhi's father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his birth anniversary in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011. Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a suicide bomber...
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In this photo taken Saturday, May 21, 2011, Congress party general secretary Rahul Gandhi pays tribute at the memorial of his father former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 20th death anniversary in New Delhi, India. Rahul Gandhi, the son, grandson, and great-grandson of Indian...
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Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi, left, with her son Rahul Gandhi pays tributes to her husband former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi on his 20th death anniversary during a memorial service in New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 21, 2011. Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated allegedly...
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An Indian Muslim participates in a memorial service of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 20th death anniversary, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 21, 2011. Gandhi was assassinated allegedly by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE, in the southern state of Tamil...
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Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi, bottom, attends the memorial service of former Indian Prime Minister and her her husband Rajiv Gandhi on his 20th death anniversary in New Delhi, India, Saturday, May 21, 2011. Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated allegedly by Liberation Tigers of Tamil...
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Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi, center, walks after paying tributes to former Indian Prime Minister and her husband Rajiv Gandhi on his 20th death anniversary during a memorial service, as her daughter Priyanka Vadra, left, and her son Rahu Gandhi, right, stand by in New Delhi,...
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In this Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011. Abbas, left, and S. Aksari begum, children of Shantani begum, one of victims who were also killed in a blast at the 1991 assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, speak to The Associated Press in Chennai, India. Across most of India...
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Chairperson of India's Congress-led UPA government Sonia Gandhi (R) is greeted by Senior leader of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lal Krishna Advani (L) after paying their respects at the memorial to the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat in New Delhi...
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