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India remembers Rajiv Gandhi
A remembrance ceremony marking the 70th birth anniversary of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was held in New Delhi on August 20, 2014.
Indian Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi addresses a rally held by the All Indian Women Congress in New Delhi on August 20, 2014. The congress is to hold a women’s rally to mark former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s 70th birth anniversary. (AFP/Getty Images)
Indian Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi gestures as she addresses a rally held by the All Indian Women Congress in New Delhi on August 20, 2014. The congress is to hold a women’s rally to mark former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s 70th birth anniversary. (AFP/Getty Images)
Indian Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi (L) lights a candle as she attends a rally held by the All Indian Women Congress in New Delhi on August 20, 2014. The congress is to hold a women’s rally to mark former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s 70th birth anniversary. (AFP/Getty Images)
Assassinated Prime Minister Indira Gandhi lies in state at Teen Murti Bhavan on October 31, 1984 in New Delhi, as her son Rajiv Gandhi (L) looks on. Indira Gandhi was killed by two of her Sikh bodyguards following an Indian army raid on the Golden Temple in the northern city of Amritsar, Sikhdom’s holiest shrine. (AFP/Getty Images)
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi pays his respects 27 May 1985 to his mother, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, at the place where she fell martyr to assassins’ bullets 31 October 1984 in New Delhi. Gandhi was Prime Minister of India from January 19, 1966-March 24, 1977 and from January 14, 1980 until her assassination in 1984. She was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. She was not related to Mahatma Gandhi; she took her last name from her husband Feroze Gandhi, who changed his surname to ‘Gandhi’ for political reasons. Indira’s later reign was most marked by a serious breakdown in Hindu-Sikh relations that would eventually lead to her own assassination. Sikh alienation was deep and had dramatic consequences: on 31 October 1984 Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards, Beant Singh and Satwant Singh. (AFP/Getty Images)
India’s Premier Rajiv Gandhi (2nd-R), accompanied by his Italian-born wife Sonia (C) and his daughter Priyanka (2nd-L) and son Rahul (L), pray, on his mother, Indira Gandhi’s, cremation site 31 October 1989 in New Delhi. Indira, a Congress party leader, was brutally assassinated by Sikh militants in 1984, a tragedy which thrust power onto Rajiv, who was then a commercial pilot of Indians Airlines. On 21 May 1991, Rajiv Gandhi, then Indian Prime minister, was assassinated by a woman activist allegedly belonging to Sri Lankan Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels. Sonia, eleven years after the assassination of Rajiv, is leading a revival of the Congress party and carrying forward the legacy of India’s most powerful political dynasty. (AFP/Getty Images)
In this picture taken May 21 1991, then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi (R) is greeted as he arrives to make an address during an election campaign moments before he was killed by a suicide bomber in Sriperumbudur in the southern Indian state of Tamil. The suspected Tamil guerrilla assassin is in the bottom left corner of the picture with flowers on her head. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, daughter of former Indian premier Rajiv Gandhi who was assassinated by a suicide bomber in 1991, created a stir on April 15, 2008, when she said she had met one of the plotters in prison last month. Confirmation that a meeting with Nalini Sriharan took place on March 19, in southern Tamil Nadu state’s Vellore prison came after a newspaper reported that a lawyer had sought details of the meeting under India’s right to information act enacted by Gandhi’s Congress party. (AFP/Getty Images)
