NEW DELHI: Former prime minister and Congress I president Rajiv Gandhi along with thousands of party workers, ended a 12 hour fast at Rajghat MK Gandhi’s memorial on Thursday.
The fast, undertaken simultaneously all over the country, was to highlight the “need to maintain national unity,” communal harmony and security of the nation.”
“I am overwhelmed by the response,” a beaming Gandhi said, after 12 hours of fasting, the first ever in his political career.
Talking to reporters at Rajghat he said threats to the nation’s security and integrity were much greater today than ever before. Analysts blame him and his mother for the current series of crises.
The situation in Jammu and Kashmiris disastrous. Punjab is no better, and now a new problem has arisen in Tamil Nadu. All this has been caused due to the mishandling and wrong policies of the National Front government,” he said.
When asked to comment on the missing vital Airbus file, he quipped, “it was not missing a week ago.” He is said to be involved in an underhand deal with Airbus Industries of France,
Commenting on this drama, a Delhi Sikh sarcastically remarked that Rajiv Gandhi through this fast is trying to digest the blood of Sikhs which he drank during the holocaust of November 1984.
Article extracted from this publication >> May 18, 1990
