India is today celebrating 75th birth anniversary of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Manmohan Singh and Prime Minister Modi today paid their tributes to Rajiv Gandhi on Sadbhavna Diwas.
It was on this day in 1944 when Rajiv Gandhi was born. He served as the seventh Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989.
Delhi: Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi, Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, & Priyanka Gandhi Vadra pay tributes to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 75th birth anniversary.
It was on this day in 1944 when Rajiv Gandhi was born. He served as the seventh Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989. On his 75th birth anniversary, several Congress leaders and family members offered their tributes to the former Prime Minister in New Delhi. Among top Congress leaders were Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Dr. Manmohan Singh. Senior Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Ahmed Patel too offered their tributes in remembrance.
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All Congress general secretaries and state in-charges will meet here on July 31 to discuss plans for the 75th birth anniversary celebrations of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. According to sources, AICC general secretary organisation KC Venugopal has called a meeting of all party general secretaries and state incharges on July 31 in Delhi.
Nalini Sriharan, one of the seven convicts in the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, has been released on 30-days parole on Thursday to attend the wedding of her daughter. Nalini was lodged in the Vellore central prison. The Madras High Court had granted her the leave earlier this month.
This report has come days after Jagan targetted TDP chief and former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu's convention hall, Praja Vedika, in Amravati and demolished it saying it was an illegal construction.
Former Union Minister Arif Mohammad Khan, in an exclusive interview to India TV, revealed as to who pressurised the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to change the Supreme Court verdict in the controversial Shah Bano case.
From Anti-defection law and Shah Bano case to bringing in revolutionary economic reforms and the Shimla agreement with the then Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, Rajiv Gandhi government always remained in news.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday took a swipe at the BJP over its leaders making controversial remarks on Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse, saying the BJP and the RSS are not "God-ke Lovers" but "God-se Lovers".
As India awaits its 17th Lok Sabha, India TV brings to you a rundown of how India has been ruled in 72 years since Independence.
"Thousands of Sikhs were killed mercilessly. The then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi justified it. No one was punished. Manmohan Singh was made (by the Congress) to apologise. What Sam Pitroda has said exposes the Congress' mindset," said BJP president Amit Shah
So many questions and nobody to answer. But the two biggest political parties of the country are still sparring over former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's purported vacation in 1987 in the Lakshadweep archipelago.
"Politics at an all time low ...Desperate measures are visible. Hitting out at an assassinated Prime minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi, to mislead the people of India. A person who cannot defend himself...'' says Robert Vadra
The ruling BJP, in a tweet on Friday, claimed the above-mentioned 'fact' was on record of Nanavati Commission, which investigated the acts of violence against the Sikh community. The party added the “instructions to kill” the Sikhs came from former PMO.
A day after making the ‘hua toh hua’ comment, Pitroda took to Twitter to clarify his stance and said the BJP was “twisting his words and distorting facts" to "hide their failures", while reaffirming that he had acknowledged the pain of Sikhs during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Thursday described Rajiv Gandhi a martyr and said though the BJP respects him, that doesn't mean it won't talk about the "misrule and corruption" of his government.
While the Congress alleged that Modi is a "serial liar" who has made Indian Air Force jets his "own taxi", the BJP hit back with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley saying that the "kaamdars" used India's naval fleet to strike at terror, "naamdars" used them for personal reasons.
In a detailed statement, Admiral Ramdas, who was Chief of Naval Staff then, said the then Prime Minister had gone on an official trip to the Lakshadweep Islands to chair a meeting of the Islands Development Authority (IDA) held alternatively between Andaman and Lakshadweep Islands.
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