Rajiv gandhi short biography
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Rajiv Gandhi
Prime Minister of India from to
This article is about the politician. For other uses, see Rajiv Gandhi (disambiguation).
Rajiv Gandhi[a] (20 August – 21 May )[1][2][3] was an Indian politician who was the prime minister of India from to He took office after the assassination of his mother, then–prime minister Indira Gandhi, to become at the age of 40 the youngest Indian prime minister. He served until his defeat at the election, and then became Leader of the Opposition, Lok Sabha, resigning in December , six months before his own assassination.
Gandhi was not related to Mahatma Gandhi. Instead, he was from the politically powerful Nehru–Gandhi family, which had been associated with the Indian National Congress party. For much of his childhood, his maternal grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru was prime minister. Gandhi attended The Doon School, an elite boarding institution, and then the University of Cambridge in the United Kin
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Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Ratna Gandhi (; 20 August – 21 May )[1] was the seventhPrime Minister of India. He served as prime minister from to He took office after the murder of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, his mother. He became the youngest Indian prime minister.
Gandhi remained Congress President until the elections in While campaigning for the elections, he was murdered by a suicide bomber.[2] He was 46 years old.[3]
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SHRI RAJIV GANDHI
At 41, Rajiv Gandhi was the youngest Prime Minister of India and perhaps one of the youngest elected heads of Government in the world. His mother, Indira Gandhi, was eight years older when she first became Prime Minister in His illustrious grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, was 58 when he started his 17 year long innings as free India’s first Prime Minister.
At 41, Rajiv Gandhi was the youngest Prime Minister of India and perhaps one of the youngest elected heads of Government in the world. His mother, Indira Gandhi, was eight years older when she first became Prime Minister in His illustrious grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, was 58 when he started his 17 year long innings as free India’s first Prime Minister.
Besides being the harbinger of a generational change in the country, Mr. Gandhi received the biggest mandate in the nation’s history. In the elections to the Lok Sabha, which he ordered as soon as the mourning for his slain mother was over, the Congress party