Rajiv Gandhi was born in Mumbai on August 20, 1944 to Indira and Feroze Gandhi. In 1951, Rajiv and Sanjay were admitted to Shiv Niketan School, where teachers said rajiv was shy and introverted, and "he was very interested in painting and drawing. In 1954, he was admitted to Welham Boys School, Dehradun and Doon School, Dehradun, where Sanjay joined him two years later. Rajiv was sent to London in 1961 for A-level studies. Rajiv was also educated at Ecole d'Huminite, an international boarding school in Switzerland. From 1962 to 1964, he studied engineering at Trinity College in Cambridge, but did not pursue a degree. In 1966, he started a course in mechanical engineering at Imperial College London, but did not complete it. Gandhi was not really studious enough, as he later admitted.
Rajiv Gandhi was not interested in politics and was a pilot in an airline. After the Emergency, when Indira Gandhi had to give up power. Then, in 1980, Rajiv Gandhi entered politics to help Mother Indira after the untimely death of his younger brother Sanjay Gandhi in a plane crash. He reached the House after winning the Lok Sabha elections from Amethi and rajiv gandhi became the next Prime Minister of India after terrorists assassinated PM Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984 and remained the prime minister with the highest majority in the next general elections.
Opposition parties also accused Rajiv Gandhi of carrying out the Rs 64 crore Bofors scam and the allegations prevented the Congress party from getting an absolute majority in the next election. The second major charge against him was in the Shahbano case when he misused the congress' overwhelming majority in Parliament and passed the bill contrary to the Supreme Court order. Rajiv's statement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots was also widely criticized. At that time, Rajiv had said, "When a big tree falls, the earth moves. Let me tell you that about 17,000 Sikhs were killed in these riots. This was followed by the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in a massive bomb blast at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu while campaigning in the General Elections on May 21, 1991.
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