Rajiv gandhi death: Rajiv Gandhi was slain by

Rajiv Gandhi was slain by a suicide bomber and was a prominent member of LTTE, an armed Tamil separatist group in Sri Lanka that was standing against the island’s government and was seeking a separate state for Sri Lankan Tamils. Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by LTTE member Dhanu in 1991. Dhanu wore a bomb disguised under a green salwar-kurta and denim vest. Supreme Court released all convicts involved in the assassination . Rajiv Gandhi , born August 20, 1944, was assassinated on May 2, 1991. (File Photo) India’s former ... Rajiv Gandhi, the 46-year-old former Indian prime minister, has been assassinated . He was campaigning for the Congress Party on the second day of voting in the world's largest democratic election... The Supreme Court on Friday set free Nalini Sriharan and five other remaining convicts, who are serving life term for about three decades in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, noting that its...