He had sent peacekeeping troops to Sri Lanka in the ‘80s. The separatists in that nation, which suffered losses because of that intervention, sought revenge for it, by assassinating him.
What I was saying was that Rajiv Ghandi should have declined the throne when his mother got offed by her Sikh bodyguards during the Amritsar pogrom of 84’. He was not the heir apparent but his older brother Sanjay had been killed crashing his airplane earlier.
This dynastic politics is abhorrent to a democracy. Needless to say, we should not be going down that road ourselves.