{"id":301626,"date":"2018-08-20T06:56:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T06:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301626"},"modified":"2018-08-20T09:47:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T09:47:03","slug":"rahul-gandhi-pm-modi-pays-tributes-to-former-pm-rajiv-gandhi-on-his-birth-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-pm-modi-pays-tributes-to-former-pm-rajiv-gandhi-on-his-birth-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi, PM Modi pay tributes to former PM Rajiv Gandhi on his birth anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301627 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Rajiv-gandhi-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rajiv-gandhi-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rajiv-gandhi-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rajiv-gandhi-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rajiv-gandhi-611x420.jpg 611w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rajiv-gandhi.jpg 663w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/>Congress president Rahul Gandhi along with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Robert Vadra and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday, paid floral tribute to late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his birth anniversary at Veer Bhumi in Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Ashok Gehlot also paid tribute to the former prime minister on his birth anniversary that is celebrated as &#8220;Sadbhavna divas&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Late Prime Minster Rajiv Gandhi was born on August 20, 1944, he\u00a0represented Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Amethi parliamentary constituency four times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was the sixth Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On May 21, 1991, he was assassinated in a suicide bombing at Tamil Nadu&#8217;s Sriperumbudur and was later cremated at\u00a0Veer Bhumi on the banks of the river Yamuna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress president Rahul Gandhi said that Rajiv Gandhi was a \u201ckind, gentle and affectionate man\u201d, whose untimely death left a deep void in his life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Rajiv Gandhi was a kind, gentle and affectionate man whose untimely death left a deep void in my life. I remember the times we had together and the many birthdays we were lucky to celebrate with him when he was alive. He is greatly missed, but his memory lives on,&#8221; tweeted by Rahul Gandhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi also said that Rajiv Gandhi would always be remembered for his efforts towards nation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister tweeted, &#8220;Tributes to our former Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi Ji on his birth anniversary. We remember his efforts towards the nation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress president Rahul Gandhi along with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Robert Vadra and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday, paid floral tribute to late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his birth anniversary at Veer Bhumi in Delhi. Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Ashok Gehlot also paid tribute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[236,429,316,4279,579,2149,4280,1701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301632,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301626\/revisions\/301632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}