See also: Gandhi

Rajiv Gandhi (Devanāgarī: राजीवरतनगान्धी,), born the August 20th 1944 with Mumbai and dead the May 21st 1991, is the son of Indira Gandhi and grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, was Prime Minister of the India of the death of his mother the October 31st 1984 until his resignation following his failure with the legislative elections of the December 2nd 1989.

Youth

Rajiv Gandhi meets Sonia Antonia Maino whereas it makes its studies at the university of Cambridge in England. It was not intended for a political career, preferring that of airline pilot to him, but it embraced it nevertheless 6 months after the death in a plane crash of his young brother Sanjay, the dolphin of his mother to take the head of the Parti the Congress.

Political career

Elected official in February 1981 in the district held before by his brother, Rajiv was selected like Prime Minister by his party a few hours after the assassination of his mother by two of his bodyguards sikh. Two months later, it gained the legislative elections, benefitting from a popular wave of sympathy following the death of Indira.

During its mandate of Prime Minister, it brought a certain dynamism to the function which had not been occupied, before him, which by people of a certain age. It reinforced the bonds of India with the the USSR and one allots to him the promotion of the introduction of the Informatique into his country.

But its government was stained by the Scandale Bofors, was named according to the Swedish company of the same name and was bearing on forty million dollars poured with Indian politicians via the business man Italian - and associated of the Gandhi family - Ottavio Quattrocchi in exchange of contracts. This business will contribute to the failure of the party of the Congress to the elections of November 1989.

The military intervention of its government - of July 1987 at March 1990 - in the civil war opposing the government of the Sri Lanka and the freedom fighters Tamoul will lead to its assassination by militants of LTTE, using an explosive device hidden in a floral composition, and this whereas it was in shift for its re-election in the state of the Tamil Nadu.

Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi

Its assassination (a chain of flowers trapped drawn up around its neck by a kamikaze tamoule) like his/her mother, involves the victory of the Parti the Congress to the legislative elections of 1991.

Family life

His Italian wife Sonia and its two children Rahul and Priyanka perpetuates the family tradition while being implied in the political matters of India.

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