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A song on Rajiv Gandhi's political journey, compilation of his important life events. Rajiv had squandered a chance as PM to deliver but yet he was Congress's biggest hope till his death. Rajiv had led the government with the most brute majority in parliament (415, something PM Narendra Modi would like to break these days) but yet he could not deliver on the expectations and only ended up in the Bofors quagmire in five years time. As Jawaharlal Nehru's grandson and Indira Gandhi's son, the charismatic leader became the youngest prime minister of India at the age of 40 and was seen a major hope for both the Congress and the country's future. But Rajiv Gandhi was a naive politician and he was dead before he could go for a course correction. Source: http://www.ibtimes.co.in/ But his death was
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