Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: An Inside Job? - Hardcover

Faraz Ahmad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9382711473 ISBN 13: 9789382711476

Publisher: Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

For twenty-three years a myth has been perpetuated that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by the LTTE because it feared his triumphant return to power at the conclusion of the 1991 general electrons, underway, when Rajiv, out of power was assassinated on 21 May 1991. But if this basic premise is knocked off and the alternate scenario is shown that the Congress which returned to power in 1991 even after Rajiv's assassination considerably short of a simple majority, had no chance of returning to power, had Rajiv not been sacrificed thus, then the entire bottom of this myth is knocked off and the whole theory falls flat on its nose. This is the premise on which everyone starting from CBI-SIT to the Supreme Court and numerous analysts and theorists have built their castles of conspiracy. This book is also about conspiracies and intrigue, but it has attempted to explode this myth and seeks to find why Rajiv was killed if he was not likely to return to power in the 1991 mid-term elections?

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Review:

Besides the known facts about the assassination, Mr. Ahmad makes some fascinating points. An interesting point: "The tide of Mandal (Commission) and (Ram) Mandir seemed too strong to turn away without a great sacrifice and perhaps they (the Indian political establishment) calculate that only Rajiv's sacrifice could turn the tide in favour of the Congress, which it actually did. In that sense, Rajiv was a great martyr, perhaps unknowingly, to the cause of Brahminism." Another good point is that the author compares the assassination with the killing of Western tourists in Kashmir in 1995. --Iniyavan Rathinam Sep 14, 2014

About the Author:

Ahmad Faraz (Urdu: , born Syed Ahmad Shah (Urdu: ) on 12 January 1931[1] in Kohat,[2][3] died 25 August 2008) was a Pakistani Urdu poet. He was acclaimed one of the modern Urdu poets of the last century. 'Faraz' is his pen name, (in Urdu takhalus). He died in Islamabad on 25 August 2008.[4][5] He was awarded Hilal-e-Imtiaz, Sitara-i-Imtiaz and after his death Hilal-e-Pakistan by the government.[3]

About this edition

• Publisher: Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9382711473
• ISBN 13: 9789382711476
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320