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Rajiv Gandhi

By: Peter Hutch

Rajiv Gandhi, born in 1944, served as the Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989. The first son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi, Rajiv attended Cambridge University, where he met and married Sonia. He was not a man of any unusual academic achievements or other distinctions, and appears to have had few ambitions until the death of his brother Sanjay in 1980. The following year, his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, appears to have induced Rajiv, an airline pilot, to enter politics. He stood successfully for election in 1981 and became a political adviser to his mother.

Rajiv Gandhi popularly known as ' Mr.Clean' shot like a meteor on the horizon of Indian politics after the death of his mother Mrs Indira Gandhi. Due to his visionary policies, he won the reputation of being the leader of the youth. His contribution in strengthening Panchayati Raj Institutions and empowering women will find mention in the annals of the history. Rajiv Gandhi was an epitome of simplicity, humanity, humility and numerous other higher values of life. He will always be remembered for his role in shaping modern India by introducing Information Technology and revolutionary charges in Telecommunication Policy which helped India to emerge as a leading nation in the Modern Electronic Age.

Life Line1944: born in Mumbai, 1980: his brother Sanjay dies in a plane crash.1981: His mother, Indira Gandhi convinces him to join politics.he is elected into the parliament 1984: Her bodyguards assassinate Indira Gandhi. Rajiv Gandhi leads the congress party to a sweeping victory and succeeds his mother as Prime Minister.1987: sends the Indian Peace Keeping Force to Sri Lanka mediate an end to Tamil-Sinhalese violence there.

1988: Allegations of corruption in the Bofors scam diminish his popularity.1989: the congress party loses its parliamentary majority and Rajiv Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister. 1991: while campaigning for the elections, he is assassinated by a Tamil militant suicide bomber in Tamil Nadu. They said it was their revenge for india's intervention in the civil war in Sri Lanka.1998: 26 members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (a separatist guerilla group) are convicted of Rajiv Gandhi's murder and are sentenced to death. 1999: Rajiv Gandhi is posthumously charged with participating in a kickback scheme in a Bofors arms deal.

End of a dynasty

Rajiv Gandhi's death has shocked the world and marks the end of the Nehru dynasty that had led India for all but five years since independence from Britain. After his brother Sanjay was killed in an air crash in 1980, he gave up his job as an airline pilot and was elected to Sanjay's parliamentary seat. He became prime minister after his mother, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by her own Sikh bodyguards in 1984. Often seen as a reluctant leader, he and his Congress Party won a record majority later that year. He encouraged foreign investment, a freer economy and rejuvenated his own party, ridding it of his mother's unelected cronies. After he lost the election in 1989, Rajiv Gandhi resigned. This time, the Congress Party was expected to win the largest number of parliamentary seats - but not overall control - against the Hindu BJP Party and the Janata Dal, now split into two parties. The campaign has been marred by sectarian violence between Hindus and Muslims in what has proved to be the most violent election in Indian history. Two hundred people have already been killed.

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