On 21st May 1991 , while campaigning in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a suicide bomber, Dhanu, an LTTE operative. The blast killed Gandhi and 14 others, including the photographer, whose camera survived, providing crucial evidence. Rajiv Gandhi ... Rajiv Gandhi [a] (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) [1] was an Indian statesman and pilot who served as the prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the assassination of his mother, then–prime minister Indira Gandhi , to become at the age of 40 the youngest Indian prime minister. A meticulous account of how a LTTE death squad murdered former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the SIT’s deadly cat-and-mouse game that brought the killers to justice One month after the brutal assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi , the crack special investigation team (SIT) has managed to edge considerably closer to unravelling the complex plot behind the shocking crime that stunned the nation.
