‘Papa, I’ll totally shoulder…’: Rahul Gandhi remembers father Rajiv Gandhi with emotional word, childhood picture | India Information
NEW DELHI: Chief of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday paid tribute to his father and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi by sharing a childhood {photograph} with him on his thirty fifth dying anniversary. Paying tribute to him, Rahul stated he would proceed working in direction of fulfilling his father’s imaginative and prescient of a robust and affluent India.In a publish on X, Rahul Gandhi wrote, “Papa, I’ll totally shoulder the duty of realizing the dream of a talented, affluent, and powerful India that you just envisioned. Your teachings, your values, and your recollections will at all times stay with me.”Senior Congress leaders, together with Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, additionally paid homage to Rajiv Gandhi at his memorial Vir Bhumi in Delhi. Priyanka Gandhi’s youngsters Miraya and Raihan Vadra had been additionally current through the tribute ceremony.Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge remembered Rajiv Gandhi as a ‘exceptional son of India’ and highlighted his position in shaping trendy India by way of reforms in expertise, schooling and native governance.In a publish on X, Kharge wrote, “India is an previous nation however a younger nation… I dream of India — robust, unbiased, self-reliant and within the entrance rank of the nations of the world, within the service of mankind.”“On his martyrdom day, we pay our deepest respects to Former Prime Minister and Bharat Ratna Rajiv Gandhi, a exceptional son of India who impressed hope and aspiration in tens of millions throughout the nation,” he added.Senior Congress chief Bhupinder Singh Hooda described Rajiv Gandhi as a logo of hope for the youth and stated the Gandhi household had made sacrifices for the nation over generations.“Rajiv Gandhi was about to turn out to be the PM once more earlier than he was assassinated. He was doing all the things he might for India. He was a logo of hope for the Indian youth, who seemed as much as him,” Hooda stated whereas chatting with reporters at Vir Bhumi.Congress chief Ashok Gehlot additionally praised Rajiv Gandhi’s imaginative and prescient for science, expertise and youth empowerment.“Rajiv Gandhi was the primary individual to speak concerning the twenty first Century in that period. He believed that folks ought to put together themselves for the brand new century, which might hold India on par with different nations on the planet,” Gehlot stated.Rajiv Gandhi grew to become India’s youngest Prime Minister in 1984 on the age of 40 after the assassination of his mom after which Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. He served as Prime Minister until 1989 and was assassinated in 1991 throughout an election rally in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, in a suicide bombing carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
