History Today: When Rajiv Gandhi said ‘Relax, don’t worry’. Moments later, he died

On May 21, 1991, India’s former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi arrived in Tamil Nadu’s Sriperumbudur for an election campaign. He was greeted by hundreds and hundreds of supporters at the event. However, minutes into that campaign, he was assassinated when a person from the crowd approached him with an explosive hidden inside a garland. Here’s how one of the darkest chapters in the history of independent India unfolded

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