Before Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, killers met former PM...?

frame Before Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, killers met former PM...?

S Venkateshwari
Before Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, killers met former PM...?

More than 23 years have passed since the assassination of the country's former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. But even today the people of that decade do not forget the incident, when on May 21, 1991, rajiv gandhi died in a suicide attack during an election rally in Sriperumbudur, tamil Nadu. But do you know that the attackers who killed rajiv gandhi had also met a former PM before that. Yes, today we will tell you about the planning of that murder.

How was rajiv gandhi killed?

Let us tell you that on May 21, 1991, rajiv gandhi was going to address an election rally in Sriperumbudur, tamil Nadu. Before he reached the stage, an attacker named Dhanu carried out a suicide attack during the welcome on the red carpet. According to the information, when the female extremist Dhanu bent down to touch the feet of PM Rajiv after putting a garland of flowers on him, at that very moment she pressed the button of the explosives tied to her waist and blasted them. In this suicide attack, 16 people including Rajiv and the attacker Dhanu died on the spot. 45 people including police and congress party workers were seriously injured in this attack.

How was the murder planned?

The terrorist organization Liberation Tigers of tamil Eelam i.e. LTTE was behind the murder of Rajiv Gandhi. But its mastermind was Sivarasan. When Sivarasan planned to kill rajiv gandhi, he worked on many methods. But in the end he finalized the suicide bomb plan. When Sivarasan wanted to know how the security of the PM is.For this, Sivarasan made a plan and Sivarasan, Dhanu, sudha and Nalini plan to meet former PM VP Singh. During this time, they come to know that VP Singh is going to have a rally in Chennai, after which all these attackers go to meet him to garland him and finalize the plan. In that meeting, Dhanu and sudha garland him and Nalini's job was to take a photo, but she is unable to do so. After this, Shivrasan plans to kill Rajiv Gandhi. After which rajiv gandhi is killed on 21 May 1999.

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