He was conceived August 20, 1944, Bombay [now Mumbai], India—kicked the bucket May 21, 1991, Sriperumbudur, close to Madras [now Chennai]), Indian legislator and government official who rose to end up the pioneer of the Congress (I) Party (a group of the Indian National Congress[Congress Party] built up in 1981) and filled in as head administrator of India (1984– 89) after the death of his mom, Indira Gandhi, in 1984. He was himself killed in 1991.

Rajiv and his more youthful sibling, Sanjay (1946– 80), the children of Feroze and Indira Gandhi, were instructed at the renowned Doon School in Dehra Dun (now in Uttarakhand state). Rajiv at that point went to Imperial College, London, and finished a designing course at the University of Cambridge(1965). He met his future spouse, Sonia, amid his opportunity in England. In the wake of coming back to India, he gained a business pilot's permit and, starting in 1968, worked for Indian Airlines.

While his sibling was alive, Rajiv to a great extent remained out of legislative issues; yet, after Sanjay, a vivacious political figure, passed on in a plane crash on June 23, 1980, Indira Gandhi, at that point PM, drafted Rajiv into a political vocation. In June 1981 he was chosen in a by-decision to the Lok Sabha (bring down council of national parliament) and around the same time turned into an individual from the national office of the Indian Youth Congress (the young wing of the Congress Party).

Though Sanjay had been depicted as politically "heartless" and "unyielding" (he was viewed as a prime mover amid the highly sensitive situation his mom announced in India in 1975– 77), Rajiv was viewed as a nonabrasive individual who counseled other gathering individuals and ceased from rushed choices. After his mom was killed on October 31, 1984, Rajiv was confirmed as the head administrator that same day and was chosen pioneer of the Congress (I) Party a couple of days after the fact. He drove the Congress (I) Party to an avalanche triumph in decisions to the Lok Sabha in December 1984, and his organization took energetic measures to change the administration and change the nation's economy. Gandhi's endeavors to dishearten rebel developments in Punjab state and the Kashmir area reverse discharges, notwithstanding, and after his administration ended up involved in a few money-related outrages, his authority turned out to be progressively inadequate. He surrendered his post as head administrator in November 1989 after the Congress (I) Party was vanquished in parliamentary races, however, he remained the pioneer of the gathering.

In May 1991 Gandhi was crusading in Tamil Nadu state for the following round of parliamentary decisions when he and 16 others were executed by a bomb hid in a crate of blooms conveyed by a lady related with the Tamil Tigers. In 1998 an Indian court indicted 26 individuals in the scheme to kill Gandhi. The plotters, who comprised of Tamil aggressors from Sri Lanka and their Indian partners, had looked for exact retribution against Gandhi in light of the fact that the Indian troops he had sent to Sri Lanka in 1987 to help authorize a peace accord there had wound up battling the Tamil dissident guerrillas. After Rajiv's demise, his dowager, Sonia Gandhi, assumed control over the initiative of the Congress Party (the "I" assignment was formally dropped in 1996).