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Nation pays tributes to Rajiv on 68th birth anniversary | | The nation today pays tributes to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
on his 68th birth anniversary. President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Mohammad
Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi
and several other dignitaries visited the Vir Bhumi here and paid floral tributes
at the samadhi of Rajiv Gandhi. Several functions are being held across the country
today to remember the former Prime Minister. Rajiv Gandhi was the sixth Prime
Minister of India (1984-1989). He became the youngest Prime Minister of India
when he took office at the age of 40 after his mother Indira Gandhi's assassination
on October 31, 1984.
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