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Updated Feb 17, 2021 · 10:35 pm Congress leader Rahul Gandhi poses for a photo with students of Bharathidasan College for Women in Puducherry on Wednesday. | Congress/ Twitter Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that the killing of his father former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi brought him pain but he has no anger towards the people responsible, reported the Hindustan Times. “I don’t have anger towards anybody,” the Congress leader said at an event at the Bharathidasan College for Women in Puducherry. “Of course, I lost my father and for me it was a difficult time. It’s like someone has cut your heart out. I felt tremendous pain. But I don’t feel angry. I don’t feel any hatred. I forgive.”
Updated Feb 05, 2021 · 04:18 pm Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. | Narinder Nanu/AFP Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit has taken the stand that it is for President Ram Nath Kovind to decide whether seven convicts, including AG Perarivalan, undergoing life imprisonment for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, should be released early, PTI reported. The Ministry of Home Affairs made the submission in the Supreme Court on Thursday. “Governor of Tamil Nadu considered all the facts on record and after perusal of the relevant documents, recorded that the Hon’ble President of India is the appropriate competent authority to deal with the said request,” the home ministry’s affidavit stated, according to NDTV.
The Centre told the Supreme Court Thursday that Tamil Nadu Governor has taken a stand that the President of India is the appropriate competent authority to deal with the state government s 2018 recommendation to grant remission to A G Perarivalan, who is serving life term in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. The Centre said that the Governor recorded his decision after considering all the facts on record and perusing the relevant documents. In an affidavit, the Ministry of Home Affairs said the proposal received by the Central government will be processed in accordance with law. His Excellency the Governor of Tamil Nadu considered all the facts on record and after perusal of the relevant documents, recorded that the President of India is the appropriate competent authority to deal with the said request for remittance matter vide his order dated January 25, 2021. The proposal received by the Central Government will be processed in accordance with law, the MHA said in the affidavit.