Sadbhavana Diwas 2023: Every year on August 20, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is celebrated as Sadbhavana Diwas or Harmony Day. This year marks the 77th anniversary of the birth of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Let us take a look at some interesting facts about Rajiv Gandhi like at what age did he become Prime Minister of India, what is his full name, what are his development jobs etc. He became the third generation of his family after his maternal grandfather. Jawaharlal Nehru and his mother Indira Gandhi will become Prime Minister of India. He was assassinated on May 21, 1991 in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, during a public meeting while campaigning.
Rajiv Gandhi Biography: Birth, Assassination, Family, Education, Personal Life and Political Career
Born: 20 August 1944 Place of Birth: Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra Parents: Feroze Gandhi (father) and Indira Gandhi (mother) Wife/Spouse: Sonia Gandhi Children: Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Education: Doon School, Dehradun; Trinity College, Cambridge, England Political association: Indian National Congress Political ideology: Right; Liberal Publications: Rajiv’s World: Rajiv Gandhi Photographs (1995) Died: May 21, 1991 Place of Death: Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu Memorial: Rajiv Gandhi Memorial, Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu
Rajiv Gandhi became India’s youngest Prime Minister in 1984 after his mother was assassinated. He was born on August 20, 1944 and was the eldest son of Feroz Gandhi and Indira Gandhi. To obtain a degree in Engineering, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, but was unable to complete his degree. He then went to Imperial College London. He entered politics in 1980 after the death of his brother Sanjay Gandhi.
10 unknown and interesting facts about Rajiv Gandhi
1. Rajiv Gandhi was born on August 20, 1944 in Mumbai. He was only three years old when India became independent and his maternal grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, became the first Prime Minister of independent India. Did you know that Rajiv Gandhi’s name stuck as Rajiv because Jawaharlal Nehru’s wife’s name was Kamala which means Goddess Lakshmi and the word ‘Rajiv’ means Kamal or lotus flower used to worship Goddess Lakshmi? Rajiv Gandhi spent his childhood days at Murthy House, where Indira Gandhi served her father unofficially as her personal assistant.
2. Rajiv Gandhi went to the Welham Boys School in Dehradun for some time, but was soon sent to the elite Doon School located in the foothills of the Himalayas. Later, his younger brother Sanjay Gandhi was also sent to this school where the two stayed together. After leaving school, Rajiv went to Trinity College, Cambridge, but soon transferred to Imperial College, London. There he studied mechanical engineering, but for some reason he was unable to complete his course.
3. In 1966, Rajiv Gandhi came to India and until then his mother Indira Gandhi had become the Prime Minister of India. Rajiv Gandhi was very interested in music. He liked Western and Hindustani classical and modern music. He was also passionate about listening to the radio and doing photography.
4. Rajiv Gandhi met Edvige Antonio Albina Maino in London. In 1968 he married Edvige Antonio Albina Maino in New Delhi and renamed her Sonia Gandhi. They have two children, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi.
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5. Why did Rajiv Gandhi enter politics? We all know that Rajiv Gandhi was not interested in politics, but when his younger brother Sanjay Gandhi died in a plane crash on June 23, 1980, he joined politics and ran for election from his brother’s seat. of him Amethi. In 1981, Rajiv Gandhi was appointed president of the Indian Youth Congress.
Sadbhavana Diwas 2023, 76th Anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi’s Birth: All You Need to Know
6. After returning to India, the former Prime Minister obtained a commercial pilot’s license from the Delhi Flying Club and became a pilot for Indian Airlines. Not initially interested in politics, he joined Indian Airlines in 1970.
7. Rajiv Gandhi’s mother, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by her own bodyguard on October 31, 1984. In 1984, Congress contested the Amethi Lok Sabha election under the leadership of Rajiv Gandhi and Congress won 404 out of 533 seats, which was considered the biggest victory in history. Rajiv Gandhi thus became the youngest Prime Minister of India, at the age of 40.
8. Rajiv Gandhi contributed greatly to the development of the country. He announced a National Education Policy in 1986 to modernize and expand higher education programs across India. He founded a central government institution, namely the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya System in 1986 to improve the rural sector of the society by providing them with free residential education from the sixth to the twelfth grade. Through his efforts, MTNL was established in 1986 and also created Public Call Offices (PCOs) to spread telephones in rural areas.
9. After 1990, he introduced measures to reduce the Raj License, which allowed companies and individuals to purchase capital, consumer goods and import without bureaucratic restrictions. It introduced the voting age at 18 and also included the Panchayati Raj. He strongly encouraged youth power and said that the country’s development depends only on the awareness of the country’s youth. That is why Jawahar Rozgar Yojana started to give jobs to the young people.
10. Rajiv Gandhi sent an Indian peacekeeping force to Sri Lanka to help them fight Tamil insurgents to antagonize the LTTE. The Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Agreement was signed by Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President JR Jayewardene in Colombo on July 29, 1987. Before dispatching the peacekeeping army, LTTE chief V Prabhakaran was to meet Rajiv Gandhi in Delhi. Rajiv Gandhi was strict with him. Since then he had been waiting for an opportunity. Rajiv Gandhi was nicknamed mr clean for his fight against corruption.
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11. On May 21, 1991, Rajiv Gandhi arrived in Sriperumbudur, 30 kilometers from Chennai, to address a demonstration where he was assassinated. A woman named Dhanu approached Rajiv Gandhi, leaned down to touch his feet and detonated a bomb, which was placed under her dress. His aggressive efforts to curb the LTTE in Sri Lanka led to the group’s premature assassination of him at Sriperambudur. In 1991, Rajiv Gandhi was posthumously awarded the country’s highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, by the Indian government.
Rajiv Gandhi was a simple and influential personality. He always talks to his party before making important decisions. He led the country towards modernism, established schools, encouraged the youth, etc. He wanted to maintain unity in the country and his main objective was the construction of a 21st century India. In fact, his anti-corruption stance and nepotism earned him the nickname “Mr. Clean.” He was assassinated on 21 May 1991 by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres in a suicide bomb attack.
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