2006-08-31 18:38:04 · 6 answers · asked by vivek 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Rajiv Gandhi, known as Mr. Clean, Ex-Prime Minister and son of Indira Gandhi was killed in a powerful human bomb attack on 21st, May 1991. He was cremated near Raj Ghat. The name of that ground where he was cremated is Veer Bhoomi which is mere few meters away from Raj Ghat in New Delhi.
2006-08-31 21:21:40 · answer #1 · answered by nilmani 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To North of Raj Ghat, Delhi, is the cremation ground of Jawaharlal Nehru named as Shanti Van. The cremation ground of Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi are also in the vicinity. The cremation ground of Lal Bahadur Shastri is nearby.
2006-09-01 02:42:50 · answer #2 · answered by munfay 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rajiv Gandhi's last public meeting was at Tiruttani. Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991, a city close to Chennai, whilst campaigning for a UCPI candidate in Tamil Nadu. The assassination was carried out by the suicide bomber Thenmuli Rajaratnam (aka "Dhanu"). Dhanu was widely believed to have been a LTTE member, meaning that the act was carried out with the acknowledgement of the LTTE leadership. In 2006, this was implicitly confirmed by the LTTE when the top negotiator for the group, Anton Balasingham, told the private Indian channel NDTV that the killing was a "great tragedy, a monumental historical tragedy for which we deeply regret".[1][2]
In 1998 an Indian court convicted 26 people in the conspiracy to assassinate Gandhi. The conspirators, who consisted of Tamil Tigers from Sri Lanka and their Indian allies, had sought to stop Gandhi from getting elected in the then upcoming elections. They wanted to stop him from sending Indian troops into Sri Lanka as he had done in 1987 (where he was assaulted by a Sinhalese nationalist sailor, Wijayamuni Wijitha Rohana, while inspecting a guard of honour) to help enforce a peace accord.
Those troops ended up fighting the Tamil separatist guerrillas. His death brought the ailing Congress Party back into power in the 1991 general election on a similar wave of feeling as had followed his mother's assassination. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously in 1991. A magnificent memorial, christened Veer Bhumi was constructed at his cremation spot.
2006-09-01 01:51:50 · answer #3 · answered by rohingrewal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is in sriprumbudur chnnai
i am not too sure abt the name
2006-09-01 01:44:41 · answer #4 · answered by premilove 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
shantivan
2006-09-01 01:40:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"blackburn"
2006-09-01 03:51:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋