Father's Death "Single Biggest Learning Experience Of Life": Rahul Gandhi
NDTV
Rahul Gandhi was asked about the death anniversary of his father who was killed in an LTTE suicide bombing during an election rally in May 1991.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that the assassination of his father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was the "single biggest learning experience" of his life, asserting that he cannot get away from the fact that the event also made him learn things that he would have never learnt otherwise.
In conversation with Indian-origin academic Dr Shruti Kapila at the prestigious University of Cambridge on Monday, he was asked about the death anniversary of his father who was killed in an LTTE suicide bombing during an election rally in Tamil Nadu in May 1991.
Dr Kapila, Associate Professor in the Faculty of History at Corpus Christi College, posed the Opposition MP with a "Gandhian question" of violence and how to live with it at a personal level.
"The single biggest learning experience of my life was my father's death. There is no bigger experience than that," said Mr Gandhi, after several minutes of pause during which the 51-year-old leader seemed visibly moved.
