The first son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi, Rajiv attended Cambridge University, where he met and married Sonia. He was not a man of any unusual academic achievements or other distinctions, and appears to have had few ambitions until the death of his brother Sanjay in 1980.
Rajiv was recruited into politics after the death of his brother and politician Sanjay Gandhi, in an accident, by his mother Indira Gandhi, India's first woman Prime Minister.
Rajiv Ratna Gandhi[1][a] (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) [2] was an Indian politician and pilot who served as the prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989 for two terms.
Rajiv Gandhi was an Indian politician and government official who rose to become the leader of the Congress (I) Party (a faction of the Indian National Congress [Congress Party] established in 1981) and served as prime minister of India (1984–89) after the assassination of his mother, Indira Gandhi, in 1984.
Rajiv Ratna Gandhi served as the Prime Minister of India, from 1984 to 1989. Let's take a look at his life history, family, achievements, contribution, and some interesting facts.
Trump’s rhetoric, Rajiv Gandhi’s restraint, and lessons on leadership Becoming the first Indian PM to visit Pakistan in 28 years, Rajiv decided he needed to bring back from the Islamabad SAARC meeting in December 1988 a signed bilateral agreement that would protect each country’s nuclear facilities even if war were to break out
At 40, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi was the youngest Prime Minister of India, perhaps even one of the youngest elected heads of Government in the world. His mother, Smt. Indira Gandhi, was eight years older when she first became Prime Minister in 1966.