Rajiv Gandhi on a live TV show said of the carnage, " When a big tree falls, the earth shakes.

Firstly, her younger son Sanjay had been her chosen heir ; but after his death in a flying accident in June 1980, his mother persuaded a reluctant elder son Rajiv Gandhi to quit his job as a pilot and enter politics in February 1981.

Over a decade later, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated.

* 1987 – Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.

He was the father of Indira Gandhi and the maternal grandfather of Rajiv Gandhi, who were to later serve as the third and sixth Prime Ministers of India, respectively.

Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi immediately dispatched 1, 600 troops by air to restore order in Malé.

* 1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.

Rajiv Ratna Gandhi (; 20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991 ) was the sixth Prime Minister of India ( 1984 – 1989 ).

Rajiv Gandhi was the eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi.

Following the death of his younger brother Sanjay Gandhi in 1980 Rajiv entered politics.

Rajiv Gandhi led the Congress to a major election victory in 1984 soon after, amassing the largest majority ever seen in the Indian Parliament, the Congress party winning 411 seats out of 542.

Rajiv Gandhi remained Congress President until the elections in 1991.

Rajiv Gandhi was an active amateur radio operator, and used the callsign VU2RG.

Rajiv Gandhi was born into India's most famous political family.

Rajiv Gandhi was not related to Mahatma Gandhi, although they share the same surname.

It was widely perceived that Indira Gandhi was grooming Rajiv for the prime minister's job, and he soon became the president of the Youth Congress – the Congress party's youth wing.

Rajiv Gandhi was in West Bengal when his mother, Indira Gandhi was assassinated on 31 October 1984 by two of her Sikh bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, to avenge the military attack on the Harmandir Sahib ( Sikhism's holiest shrine, also called " The Golden Temple ") during Operation Blue Star.

Commenting on the anti-Sikh riots in the national capital Delhi, Rajiv Gandhi said, " When a giant tree falls, the earth below shakes "; a statement for which he was widely criticised.

Rajiv Gandhi also officially became the President of the Congress party.

Rajiv was born in 1944 in Mumbai, during a time when both his parents were in and out of British prisons.

At the time of his father's death, Rajiv was away at a private boarding school for boys: initially at the Welham Boys ' School and later The Doon School, both located in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.

In 1992, the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award was instituted by All India Congress Committee ( AICC ) of the Indian National Congress Party ( INC ).

The International Airport constructed at Hyderabad has been named Rajiv Gandhi International Airport and was inaugurated by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

On 21 May 1991, Rajiv Gandhi was campaigning in favour of a UCPI candidate for the upcoming parliamentary elections in Tamil Nadu, when he was assassinated by a suicide bomber in the Indian town of Sriperumbudur, near Madras.

" He was responding to a call for attention from Rajiv Pratap Rudy of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ).

The first of these events was the Rajiv Gandhi government's use of its large Parliamentary Majority to overturn a Supreme Court verdict granting alimony to an old woman, a verdict that had angered many Muslims ( see the Shah Bano case ).

The passing of the Muslim Women ( Protection of Rights on Divorce ) Act, 1986 by the Rajiv Gandhi government, under pressure from conservative Muslims, to dilute the secular judgment of the Supreme Court, was opposed by Hindutva organisations.

He was a Minister of State in the Union cabinet under Rajiv Gandhi, holding the portfolios of Planning ( 1985 ), External Affairs ( 1985 – 86 ), and Science and Technology ( 1986 – 89 ).

The Central government attempted to seek a political solution to the grievances of the Sikhs through the Rajiv-Longowal Accord, which took place between the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Harchand Singh Longowal, the then President of the Akali Dal, who was assassinated a few months later.

Negotiations were held, and the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord was signed on 29 July 1987, by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President Jayewardene.

Indira Gandhi is the youngest person alive at the time of receiving the award ( at the age of 54 ) and Rajiv Gandhi is the youngest overall to receive the Bharat Ratna ( posthumously at the age of 47 ).

In 2011, she was awarded the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India, and Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award ( 2000 )

She was awarded the 2003 Nuremberg International Human Rights Award and Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award.

He was awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for the year 2001.

* November 29 Rajiv Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India after his party, the Indian National Congress, loses about half of its seats in the Indian general election.

Kodagu is considered rich with wildlife and has three wildlife sanctuaries and one national park: the Brahmagiri, Talakaveri, and Pushpagiri Wildlife Sanctuaries, and the Nagarhole National Park, also known as the Rajiv Gandhi National Park.

Rahul Gandhi was born in Delhi on 19 June 1970 as the first of the two children of Rajiv Gandhi, who later became the Prime Minister of India and Sonia Gandhi, who later became President of Indian National Congress, and as the grandson of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

of India has honoured Amul with the “ Best of all categories Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award ”.

On October 22, 1999 ( when National Democratic Alliance government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party was in power ) the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) filed the first chargesheet against Quattrocchi, Win Chadha, Rajiv Gandhi, the defence secretary S. K. Bhatnagar and a number of others.

In 2009, Delhi lokayukta investigated a complaint filed by advocate Sunita Bhardwaj, a BJP worker, saying that Dikshit misused Rs 3. 5 crore received from the Central government under the Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission for Rajiv Ratan Awas Yojana to give out personal advertisements.

These include management faculties in Indian Institutes of Technology ( IITs ) such as the Vinod Gupta School of Management in IIT Kharagpur, and National Institutes of Technology ( NITs ) such as National Institute of Technology Calicut, other national institutes such as the Indian Institute of Forest Management and Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology and many other prominent colleges and universities .,...

Priyanka Vadra ( née Priyanka Gandhi ) is the second of two children of late Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, current President of the Indian National Congress, and the Chairperson of the ruling United Progressive Alliance.

During his lifetime he was widely expected to succeed his mother as head of the Indian National Congress, but following his early death in a plane crash his older brother Rajiv became their mother's heir, and succeeded her as Prime Minister of India after her death.

Kannoth Karunakaran (; July 5, 1918 – December 23, 2010 ) was a senior stalwart politician from Kerala, India belonging to Indian National Congress party and was a close lieutenant of former Prime Ministers of India Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.

In 1985, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi appointed him Chairman of the National Commission on Urbanization.

* Rajiv Gandhi National Integration Award

In the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee, this was the word which eliminated contestant Rajiv Tarigopula, who finished fourth for the second consecutive year.

Goa Rajiv Congress Party, splinter-group of Indian National Congress in Goa.

* Sonia Gandhi, widow of Rajiv Gandhi, current President of the Indian National Congress party

His family became close to the Gandhi family based on their connection with Rajiv Gandhi's Italian wife Sonia Gandhi, now the president of the ruling Indian National Congress party.

Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology hosts National Conference on Recent Innovations in Technology ( NCRIT ) which aims at providing a common platform for professionals, academicians, researchers, and industrialists together to share their knowledge and ideas for achieving focused developments and advancements in engineering and management, through technical paper presentations and panel discussions.

The new terminal building consisted of two check-in terminals ; Rajiv Gandhi International and NTR National with a common arrival module.