How Rajiv Gandhi was killed
Rajiv gandhi death anniversary: Former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on this day on 21 May. Today is the death anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi. In such a situation, today we will tell the story of how Rajiv Gandhi was murdered. It starts with his becoming Prime Minister. Actually Indira Gandhi was murdered by her bodyguards. After this Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister and President Giani Zail Singh administered the oath of Prime Minister to Rajiv Gandhi. He became India’s youngest Prime Minister at the age of just 40 years. Rajiv Gandhi’s approach was very modern and he wanted to make India corruption -free.
LTTE installation
At the same time, in the year 1976, the Tamil separatist organization Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was founded by Velupillai Prabhakaran. The objective of this organization was to establish a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka and fight against the atrocities on Tamil people. LTTE also had the support of the Government of India and also had sympathy to them. During the tenure of Indira Gandhi, India’s intelligence agency also trained and supported some Tamil groups.
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Deployment of Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka
But in the year 1987, an agreement was reached between the Government of India and the Sri Lankan government. After this, Rajiv Gandhi sent the Indian Peace Keeping Pors to Sri Lanka, so that the struggle in Sri Lanka could be abolished. And LTTE can be dishonored. In the initial days, LTTE welcomed the Indian Peace Keeping Force. But the situation started changing with time and LTTE started to intervene India’s intervention. He then opened a front against the Indian Army, which also led to LTTE.
LTTE’s displeasure with Rajiv Gandhi
There was resentment in LTTE after the deployment of Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka. He did not like Rajiv Gandhi. In 1989, the Congress party was out of power. But the Congress was still in the opposition. In such a situation, in 1991, Rajiv Gandhi once again landed to campaign. During this, he had said in an interview that if he comes to power again, he will send the Peace Keeping Force to Sri Lanka again. LTTE also knew very well that if Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister again, he would again deploy the Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka.
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Murder planning
Therefore, LTTE started planning to assassinate Rajiv Gandhi. This planning was not a small planning, but the planning to kill Rajiv Gandhi was done at a big level. Meanwhile, on 21 May 1991, when Rajiv Gandhi was going to address an election rally in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu. At the same time, a suicide woman attacker named Theinamozhi “Gayatri” Rajaratnam, she reached her on the pretext of garlanding Rajiv Gandhi and then exploded. A total of 14 people, including Rajiv Gandhi, died in this blast. Let us know that the suicide attack was a member of Theanmozhi LTTE. However, before this attack, Rajiv Gandhi was also advised not to hold this rally. However, Rajiv Gandhi did not believe, which resulted in his death in a suicide attack on 21 May.
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