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Hace 2 días · Rajiv Gandhi was in West Bengal on 31 October 1984 when his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, to avenge the military attack on the Golden Temple during Operation Blue Star.
Hace 3 días · Mahatma Gandhi (born October 2, 1869, Porbandar, India—died January 30, 1948, Delhi) was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India. As such, he came to be considered the father of his country.
- Initially, Gandhi’s campaigns sought to combat the second-class status Indians received at the hands of the British regime. Eventually, however, th...
- Gandhi’s family practiced a kind of Vaishnavism, one of the major traditions within Hinduism, that was inflected through the morally rigorous tenet...
- Within India, Gandhi’s philosophy lived on in the messages of reformers such as social activist Vinoba Bhave. Abroad, activists such as Martin Luth...
- Gandhi’s father was a local government official working under the suzerainty of the British Raj, and his mother was a religious devotee who—like th...
- As lauded a figure as Gandhi has become, his actions and beliefs didn’t escape the criticism of his contemporaries. Liberal politicians thought he...
Hace 1 día · He was called to New Delhi following Rajiv Gandhi's mandate in the 1984 general election. Singh was appointed to the post of Finance Minister in the tenth Cabinet of India, where he oversaw the gradual relaxation of the License Raj (governmental regulation) as Gandhi had in mind.
Hace 4 días · A statue of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was found vandalised in Tripura’s Unakoti district, allegedly by BJP-backed goons. Congress MLA Birajit Sinha demanded the arrest of those involved in the vandalism. The incident occurred in Kailashahar subdivision’s Govidapur area.
Hace 4 días · Indira Gandhi was assassinated on 31 October 1984. During the same time, M. G. Ramachandran was diagnosed with kidney failure and admitted into a hospital in New York City. Rajiv Gandhi assumed office immediately and this required a fresh mandate from the people.
Hace 3 días · Rajiv had a "sympathy wave" in his favour — he was contesting a by-election after the death of his younger brother and the incumbent, Sanjay Gandhi, in a plane crash. Rajiv won by 2.27 lakh votes. Local people said Sharma’s cakewalk win — by 1.67 lakh votes — owed to voter anger against Smriti Irani, the local MP from the BJP ...
Hace 4 días · Congress legislator Birajit Sinha alleged that BJP-backed goons were behind the vandalisation of the three-foot statue of Gandhi, which was laid on a concrete structure in Kailashahar subdivision’s Govidapur area in 2009 as a mark to pay respect to the former PM.
