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The entire world received the news of his assassination with profound shock and disbelief. Rajiv Gandhi was proceeding towards the dais to address an election meeting at Sriperumbudur, 50 km. from Madras, On the night of May 21, 1991 when a woman moved forward to touch his feet. As she bent, there was a terrific explosion of a bomb which hit on his face throwing his mangled body on the ground. People ran helter-skelter in utter confusion. Later investigations revealed that a woman named Thanu with many surnames was employed as a suicide bomber to kill him. She had a powerful bomb tied to her waist and as she bent to touch his feet, she activated the bomb with a toggle switch. Thus, curtain was rung down on the young life that held so much promise and in short, symbolised the aspirations of an entire nation.

Rajiv Gandhi was born on August 20, 1944 in Bombay. Born to parents, Feroze Gandhi and Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi, he was heir to the political heritage of his mother and grandfather, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, the architect of modern India. He married Sonia Maino, an Italian girl, whom- he met during his student days in Cambridge. Interested in mechanical things from his childhood, he chose aviation as his career. The sudden demise of his younger brother Sanjay in a glider accident in Delhi steered Rajiv into politics, which never had any attraction for him. Before his entry into politics, Rajiv led a happy and contented life away from the glare of publicity.

He won the election from Amethi and became member of Parliament in 1981. He was appointed general secretary of the Congress party in 1983. On October 31, 1984, he took oath of office and secrecy as the seventh Prime Minister of the country after the brutal assassination of Indira Gandhi by her bodyguards. In the general elections held in December, 1984, he won a massive majority for his party, though it can be attributed to the sympathy wave generated by the assassination of his mother.