Congress To Hold Events Across Country To Mark Rajiv Gandhi’s Birth Anniversary

New Delhi:

The Congress will maintain a slew of programmes, together with blood donation camps, sports activities and cultural occasions, throughout the nation to mark the 77th delivery anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the celebration’s youth wing stated on Thursday.

A particular picture exhibition paying tribute to him may also be organised in Delhi on the event on Friday, in keeping with a press release by the Indian Youth Congress (IYC).

Rajiv Gandhi, who served because the prime minister of the nation from 1984 to 1989, was born on August 20 in 1944. He was assassinated by the LTTE throughout an election marketing campaign in 1991.

The delivery anniversary of Bharat Ratna Rajiv Gandhi is noticed as ‘Sadbhavana Diwas” by the Congress.

“The Indian Youth Congress staff throughout the nation can be paying tributes to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on ”Sadhbhavana Diwas”. Many programmes like picture exhibitions, cultural and sports activities occasions, ‘run for nation”, blood donation camps, amongst others, can be held on the state, district, meeting and block ranges,” the assertion said.

IYC nationwide president Srinivas B V remembered Rajiv Gandhi for his imaginative and prescient of recent India and referred to as him the “father of knowledge know-how and telecommunication revolution within the nation”.

“Rajiv Gandhi, who grew to become the PM on the age of 40, created trendy India. On his (Gandhi’s) initiative, the Indian telecommunication community was established. The community of telecommunications began from metropolis to villages so that individuals of villages may additionally join with the nation and the world by way of communication,” he stated in a press release.
 

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