PM Modi pays tribute to Rajiv Gandhi on death anniversary

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid homage to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary.

Rajiv Gandhi, who served as India?s Prime Minister from 1984 to 1989, assumed office following the assassination of his mother, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. At the age of 40, he became the youngest Prime Minister in Indian



history.

In a post on X, PM Modi said, ?Tributes to former Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi Ji on his death anniversary.?

Rajiv Gandhi led the country until the 1989 general elections, after which he served as the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. He resigned in December 1990, just six months before he himself was assassinated in a brutal terrorist attack.