Quotes of Rajiv Gandhi Contributions, Sacrifices and Some Touching, Inspiring, Exemplary, Serious Thoughts for India

Rajiv Gandhi was born on 20 August 1944 in Bombay. He was a professional pilot, became a politician reluctantly and became Prime Minister out of compulsion. Rajiv served as the Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989. Rajiv took over after his mother Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by Sikh extremist militants on 31 October 1984 and became the youngest Indian Prime Minister at the age of 40. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha from 1989 and resigned in December 1990, six months before his assassination. Rajiv Gandhi belonged to the politically powerful Nehru-Gandhi family. For most of his childhood, his maternal grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister.

Rajiv studied at the Doon School, an elite boarding institution, and then at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He returned to India in 1966 and became a professional pilot for the Government of India-owned Indian Airlines. In 1968, Rajiv married Sonia Maino in Luciana, Italy, whom he met while studying at Cambridge University. The Rajiv-Sonia couple settled in Delhi for domestic life with their children Rahul and Priyanka. For most of the 1970s, his mother was the Prime Minister and his younger brother Sanjay was an MP. Gandhi remained apolitical. After Sanjay's death in a plane crash in 1980, Gandhi reluctantly entered politics at his mother's behest. The following year he won his brother's parliamentary seat of Amethi and became a member of India's Parliament.

On the morning of 31 October 1984, his mother, the Prime Minister, was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, firing about 28 bullets. In the evening, Rajiv Gandhi was appointed Prime Minister by President Giani Zail Singh. In the Lok Sabha elections that followed, the Congress Party won 414 seats. At the request of the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lankan government, a peacekeeping force was sent to deal with the violent conflict of the Tamils, leading to open conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. In Sri Lanka itself, a soldier attacked Rajiv Gandhi with a rifle butt during a salute, but Rajiv saved himself with agility.

In mid-1987, the Bofors scandal damaged Rajiv's corruption-free image and his party suffered a huge defeat in the 1989 elections. But these allegations could not be proved. It was corruption propaganda against Rajiv. On 21 May 1991, while addressing an election rally in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by Tamil rebels in a bomb blast. Rajiv Gandhi's tenure as Prime Minister was full of remarkable achievements. He brought the three-tier Panchayati Raj system in the country and brought the country ahead in the field of technology and computerization.

Here are some touching, inspiring, exemplary, serious thoughts of Rajiv Gandhi

I think of the giants who made up the Indian National Congress. The world has rarely seen such a great galaxy of women and men, who were so selfless in their dedication to freedom, so great in thoughts, so brave in actions, so pure in soul.

The freedom movement transformed the status of women. Women fought alongside men as comrades. In the process, the shackles that bound them were broken.

How will we remember Mahatma Gandhi, that eternal pilgrim of freedom? Born from the soul of India, steeped in tradition, song, legend of our ancient land and yet he was a revolutionary. Unique among revolutionaries, he marched to freedom wearing the robe of truth, with non-violence as his staff.

I think we will be able to work together with (Pakistani) Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to reduce tensions and focus efforts in both countries on the real problems of the people, poverty, social injustice and development.

When I came, I had no personal goal, but after coming into politics, after seeing the people, their difficulties, their wants, I feel our goal should be to eradicate poverty from India.

Until we win true Swaraj for the hungry and spiritually hungry millions, until we eradicate poverty from our land, we cannot and will not rest.

We are committed to the development of friendship and good neighbourly relations with Pakistan. I believe Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto also shares this commitment.

We have been constantly changing. You cannot expect everything to be perfect the moment it is made. Things change as you move forward, they become dynamic. Needs change. Demands change. So you change with it.

We need better strategies to achieve the national goal of a stable population, healthy and better education.

Civilisations are built by the untiring labour of many generations. Civilisations are lost because of softness and laziness. We must beware of collapse.

For a few days people felt that India was shaking. But when a big tree falls, there is always a tremor. (This statement is associated with the anti-Sikh violence that followed the assassination of Mrs. Indira Gandhi.)

For Mahatma Gandhi the key to India's progress was the development of its villages. In his integrated vision, education, agriculture, village industries, social reforms all worked together to provide the basis for a vibrant rural society free from exploitation and equally linked to the urban centres. Our plan incorporates this basic insight.

Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.

In every democracy the will of the people is supreme. We must translate the intense desire of the people of India and Pakistan for friendship into meaningful measures of cooperation in every sphere of life.

The secretariat will play a key role in decision-making above a certain level, where basic policies are involved, but below that, we have to leave implementation to the person who is in charge.

We must remember that self-reliance and poverty alleviation compel the present generation to endure hardship and make sacrifices. Those who are employed have a duty to India's future. They have to be more productive and consume less so that resources can be made available for investment and programmes that help the poor.

We cannot legislate without a national consensus that religious and communal groups should be completely barred from politics.

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