Name : Rajiv Gandhi
7th Prime Minister of India
In office
31 October 1984 - 2 December 1989
Date of birth : 20 August 1944
Date of Death : 21 May 1991
Place of birth : Mumbai ( Bombay) India
Place of death : Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, India
Nationality: Indian
Gender : Male
Father : Jawaharlal Nehru ( Born on November 14, 1889 )
Mother : Indira Gandhi ( Born on November 19, 1917 )
Spouse : Sonia Gandhi ( Born on December 9, 1946 )
Son : Rahul Gandhi ( Born on June 19, 1970 )
Daughter : Priyanka Gandhi ( Born on Jan 11, 1972 )
Political party : Indian National Congress
1960 Passed Senior Cambridge from Doon School, Dehradun.
1962 Left for UK for higher studies.
1963 Joined Trinity College, Cambridge to study mechanical engineering.
28 February 1968 Married Sonia Gandhi
1968 Joined Indian Airlines as a pilot
11 May 1981 Joined politics as a primary member of the Congress (I)
15 June 1981 elected from Amethi Lok Sabha constituency
2 February1983 Appointed as Congress General Secretary
31 October 1984 His mother, Indira Gandhi, then prime minister of India, was assassinated. Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in as Prime Minister of India
1984 Congress party returned to power with massive mandate with Rajiv Gandhi as its leader
31 December 1984 was sworn in as PM for the second time
1986 Participated in Commonwealth Summit, London
1986 Participated in six nations summit on peace and disarmament, Mexico
1986 Participated in eight Non-Aligned summit, Harare
1986 Received Nicaragua's highest award "Augusto Caesar Sandini order".
1989 Rajiv Gandhi elected as leader of opposition
21 May 1991 Killed in bomb explosion while electioneering at Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu
17 June 1991 Bharat Ratna, the highest honor of the country conferred posthumously.
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