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. 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 Rajiv Gandhi came back to India and joined a flying club in Delhi. In 1970, he was working as a pilot in Indian Airlines. It was on the day his mother, Indira Gandhi was assassinated, that he took oath as the seventh Prime Minister of India. He was known as the Father of Information and Technology for his contribution to modernising India by promoting technology, computerisation, and telecommunication. However, his assassination back in 1991 remained a shock to the world. The Assassination Of Rajiv Gandhi The LTTE leadership was alarmed by the Congress's 1991 election manifesto, which spoke of the party's commitment to upholding the 1987 Sri Lanka accord.
