New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari along with Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her son and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday paid tributes to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 26th death anniversary.File image of Rajiv Gandhi. Reuters
They laid flowers and wreaths at the Rajiv Gandhi memorial, 'Vir Bhumi' in New Delhi. The party also launched a campaign to have more reservation for women in politics.
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh was also present at the gathering along with other dignitaries.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee too paid tributes to the former prime minister and said she would always remember the shock and pain of his "untimely demise".
NCP leader and former Congressman Sharad Pawar tweeted an old photo of him with the late prime minister.
To observe the late prime minister's death anniversary, Congress will launch a nationwide signature campaign demanding 33 percent reservation of seats for women in all Assembly and Parliamentary elections.
Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on this day in 1991 in a suicide bomb attack by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during an election rally at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu. He had succeeded his mother Indira Gandhi as prime minister, after her assassination in October 1984.
He served as prime minister from 31 October, 1984, to 2 December, 1989. He had succeeded to the position after his mother Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards on 31 October, 1984
in udaipur Udaipur.On the martyr's day of Bharat Ratna, Rajiv Gandhi, the Udaipur City District Congress Committee presented a floral tribute at the Rajiv GandhiMemorial Garden on the Rani Road,. Later , plantations & pot to drink birds' water on the trees were installed
Congress spokesman Feroz Ahmad Shaikh informed that while addressing the workers on this occasion, President of Udaipur City District Congress Committee, Gopal Krishna Sharma said he believed that youth can do the development of the country, so he always inspires youth to play a key role in the reform of the nation. He reduced the age of young voters to 18 years of age. He also made valuable contributions in the modernization of Indian administration.
Those who offered floral tribute includes State Secretary Nilima Sukhaadia, Pankaj Kumar Sharma, former MLA Trilok Purabia, KK Sharma, Madhusudan Sharma, Wasim Khan, former Leader Dinesh Sirmali, Mujib Siddiqui, Ganesh Rajora, Chandra Singh Kothari, Dr. L. N. Dadhich, Arjun Rajora, Ajay Singh, Harish Sharma, Mohammad Ayub, Bhupinder Singh Arora, Mohanlal Sharma, K. G. Mundra, Dr. Dipankar Chakravarty,Vijaya shankar Kumavat,Jaswant Ganna, Dinesh Dave,Devkishan Ramanuj, Mahesh Shrimali, Ram lal Borolia, Gaurishankar Patel, Gopal Jat, Shankar Chandel, Roshan Mehta, Shahid Hussain, Rajendra Singh Barhath, Dalpat Singh Chundawa,Lokesh Chowdhury & Dilip Sukadia, Members of DCC,Ex MPS MLA did not remembered Rajiv Gandhi.
