PM Modi pays tributes to Rajiv Gandhi on birth anniversary

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid tributes to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 78th birth anniversary.

India's youngest prime minister, Gandhi held office during 1984-89, the last time the Congress had a majority in Lok Sabha.

He was assassinated by a LTTE suicide bomber in 1991.

Modi tweeted, "On his birth anniversary, tributes to our former Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi."