Biography of rajiv gandhi in short

Rajiv Gandhi, the son of Feroze Gandhi and Indira Gandhi. He was the sixth Prime Minister of India. He was born on 20th day of August, 1944 in Mumbai.

Since childhood Rajiv was modest and attractive.

His composure of taciturnity added graceful solemnity to his character. As a pilot of Indian Airlines, Rajiv had kept himself aloof from the thorny path of politics. His tender personality was rather unsuitable in Indian Politics.

But this calm and comely man could not but join politics in 1982 at the behest of his mother after the premature demise of Sanjay Gandhi, his only brother in an air-crash.

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Rajiv’s active political life began when he was elected to the Loksabha from Amethi in 1981 in a by-election. A year later he became one of the general Secretaries of the Congress (I) Party. That was how Rajiv Gandhi became a name in Indian Politics.

But black pall of doom came down upon the Gandhi family on 31st October in 1984.

Rajiv’s mother, Priyadarshini Indira Gandhi was gunned down