Rajiv Gandhi 77th birth anniversary: Rahul Gandhi pays tributes to his father
India | August 20, 2021 10:50 ISTSenior party leaders PK Bansal, KC Venugopal and IYC chief Srinivas BV, among other leaders, were present on the occasion.
Senior party leaders PK Bansal, KC Venugopal and IYC chief Srinivas BV, among other leaders, were present on the occasion.
A special photo exhibition paying tribute to the late PM will also be organised in Delhi on the occasion, according to a statement by the Indian Youth Congress.
Centre's decision to rename the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award after hockey legend Dhyan Chand was not welcomed by Shiv Sena.
An online petition has been initiated by the residents of Kodagu demanding change of the name of Nagarahole National Park (Tiger Reserve) also known as Rajeev Gandhi National Park.
A majority of political parties have been requesting remission of the remainder of their sentences and their immediate release. "It is also the will of the people of Tamil Nadu," Stalin said
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday rejected the claim by Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury that he sat on Rabindranath Tagore's chair during his visit to Visva Bharati. He said the vice-chancellor of Visva Bharati has also clarified that no such incident took place.
On a day when Prime minister Narendra Modi is visiting Varanasi, his parliamentary constituency, some miscreants threw ink on a statue of former prime minister, late Rajiv Gandhi.
August 20 marks the birth anniversary of former PM Rajiv Gandhi.
This day marks the 76th birth anniversary of India's Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Back in 1991, in the month of May, he was assassinated by a suicide bomber of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam during an election rally in Tamil Nadu's Sriperumbudur. Here are some memorable quotes from Rajiv Gandhi.
Today is Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's 76th birth anniversary. The day is also observed as 'Sadbhavana Diwas'. Tributes are pouring in from all quarters on his birth anniversary.
S. Nalini, convicted for life in the assassination case of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, had threatened to commit suicide in the Vellore Women's Prison after an argument with another inmate, an official said on Tuesday.
BJP President Jagat Prakash Nadda on Friday questioned Rajiv Gandhi Foundation over its funds and accounts, accusing it of accepting money from the Chinese embassy over the period of 2005 to 2009.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday paid tribute to his father, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 29th death anniversary. The Congress leader took to Twitter and shared a heartfelt note for his father.
The Madras High Court on Wednesday dismissed the petition filed by Nalini Sriharan, one of the convicts in the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) here on Monday seized former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's portrait, bought by arrested Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor from Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for Rs 2 crore in June 2010.
Justice Malviya said, "The members of the court said that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi never visited BHU. Former Human Resource Development minister Arjun Singh had named the south campus of BHU after former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi."
At an event on Wednesday, former prime minister Singh had said that the 1984 anti-Sikh riots could have been avoided if the then home minister P V Narasimha Rao had heeded the suggestion of calling in the Army.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the country's premier investigating agency, has been investigating former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination in association with internal and external agencies for 22 years, but the larger conspiracy, why he was killed, is yet to be unraveled.
As prime minister, Sonia Gandhi said, Rajiv Gandhi gave the message that unity can be maintained by celebrating India's diversity. The Congress interim president also said that no-one can ever do what Rajiv Gandhi did when he was a prime minister.
Former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is often credited with ushering in IT revolution in the country, but the policy which provided a head start in software exports was actually brought in by his mother Indira Gandhi weeks before her assassination
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