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RAJIV GANDHI’S DAUGHTER PRIYANKA VISITS NALINI WHO HELPED LTTE TO KILL HER FATHER “TO COME TO TERMS WITH HIS DEATH”

By Walter Jayawardhana

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, daughter of former Indian Prime Minister and Congress President Sonia Gandhi confirmed that she visited Nalini, the convicted and jailed LTTE accomplice who helped to kill her father, Rajiv Gandhi.

“I met Nalini on March 19. It was purely a personal visit on my own initiative which must be respected,” she said in a statement after Indian newspapers revealed in a news story that she visited the woman convicted for the Rajiv Gandhi killing and first condemned to death.

Nalini escaped death, when the sentence was commuted to life sentence, when Priyanka’s mother Sonia Gandhi petitioned for clemency, as she was a mother of a five-year old daughter. She is living in a Prison in Vellore , Tamil Nadu where Priyanka visited her.

Nalini, an Indian accomplice of the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) accompanied the LTTE suicide bomber Dhanu, to the Chennai suburb of Siriperumbudur, to an election rally, where the former Indian leader was blown up, with scores of others, May 21 1991.
The Indian government wants to arrest LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and his intelligence chief , Pottu Amman for conspiracy to kill Gandhi but both of them are still hiding inside the Wanni jungles continuing to practice the same kind of terrorism in Sri Lanka.

Nalini, now 43, according to evidence,operating regarding the assassination with another LTTE man named Murugan and was impregnated by him. She gave birth to the baby while under custody for the assassination in a jail. Murugan is another accused in the case.

Earlier, newspapers said , according to Nalini’s lawyers, an emotional Priyanka made Nalini sit beside her and asked several questions related to the killing by the LTTE.

In a statement issued in New Delhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said, “I do not believe in anger or violence and I refuse to let it overpower me. Meeting Nalini was my way of coming to terms with my father’s death,”

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