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Rajiv Gandhi rallies to meet common public after Indira Gandhi's assassination. He visits villages and towns on a rally after Indira Gandhi's assassination. He met, heard and addressed common folks' issues and concerns. At 41, Rajiv Gandhi was the youngest Prime Minister of India and perhaps one of the youngest elected heads of Government in the world. His mother, Indira Gandhi, was eight years older when she first became Prime Minister in 1966. His illustrious grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, was 58 when he started his 17 years long innings as free India’s first Prime Minister. Besides being the harbinger of a generational change in the country, Mr. Gandhi received the biggest mandate in the nation’s history. In the elections to the Lok Sabha, which he ordered as soon as the mourning for hi