Sign board bearing Rajiv Gandhi's name defaced in Chandigarh
India | December 27, 2018 17:28 ISTSome unidentified men defaced a sign board bearing former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's name on Thursday, police said.
Some unidentified men defaced a sign board bearing former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's name on Thursday, police said.
His reaction comes in the background of a statue of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi being vandalised in Ludhiana by some persons on Tuesday.
According to reports, a few unidentified miscreants painted the former PM's statue red and black. They carried out the act in full public glare and blamed Rajiv Gandhi for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
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On May 21, 1991, former PM Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated at Sriperumbudur by an LTTE woman suicide bomber, Dhanu, at an election rally. Fourteen others, including Dhanu herself, were also killed.
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The younger Gandhi also told the IIM alumni in Malaysia that he and his sister Priyanka had "completely forgiven" their father's killers.
PM Modi was referring to an incident of 1982 when the then Congress general secretary Rajiv Gandhi had publicly admonished T Anjaiah, the then CM of Andhra Pradesh.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought the CBI's response on a plea seeking the recall of its 1999 judgement upholding the conviction of seven accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
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