India, May 22 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, besides several other Congress leaders on Thursday paid tributes to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary. He was born on August 20, 1944, in Mumbai and was assassinated in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu on May 21, 1991.

"Tributes to former Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi Ji on his death anniversary," Modi said in a post on social media. Rajiv Gandhi served as India's prime minister from October 31, 1984, to December 2, 1989.

Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge paid tributes to the former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 35th death anniversary, and recalled the various i...