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May 21, 1991: Most people I know, and who are in my age group, remember vividly where he or she was and what he or she was doing because of the shocking news of #RajivGandhi's assassination. If it didn't happen, remember, #DMK would have continued in power in #Tamilnadu.
May 21, 1991: Most people I know, and who are in my age group, remember vividly where he or she was and what he or she was doing because of the shocking news of #RajivGandhi's assassination. If it didn't happen, remember, #DMK would have continued in power in #Tamilnadu.
The next #Tamilnadu election would have been in 1994. There would have been an #AIADMK for sure, but not #Jayalalithaa's servile party. In fact, I doubt if she would have been this important at all. The triumvirates who protected J from harm would have been very powerful too
#Rajiv would have come to power with a fractured mandate, but would have continued his reform path because of economic exigencies of that time. It would have been very possible that #Congress made yet another proper comeback in 1996, on the government delivering promises...
On #SriLanka (13th Amendment), #Assam (a practical implementation of the Accord), #Punjab and #Kashmir. He would have been #Manmohansingh who understands #politics. #India would have been stronger, and wouldn't have stupidly tried to tell the world that we were a nuclear power...
#BJP coming to power for the first time, might have been pushed back by, at least a decade. India would have had the institutional resilience by then to defend #democracy and render #justice to many more people. The #NarasimhaRao cynicism, and subsequent rot, wouldn't have set in
Corrected: Rajiv's assassination snatched all this from us. We are paying the price for it today. That's why I won't be able to forgive his murderers. The might of the #Indian state had to be shown to #Prabhakaran. It is unfortunate that #Tamil people paid the price.
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