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Yesterday was Rajiv Gandhi's 20th Death Anniversary, I come to know about his death or birth anniversary only through the news paper ads which I see in National News papers every year. Half page to full page ads are all the time and more importance is shown since 2005. The broadcast and information department in the Government of India used to take up the job of letting the whole of India know what Rajeev Gandhi's achievements and dreams were, but now things have changed dramatically, the Ministry of Tourism has given a Ad saything that Rajiv Gandhi has inspired them and many minsters who in order to please the leaderships have issued Ads parsing the works of Rajeev Gandhi. The death of Rajeev Gandhi was sympathized by the whole of India but there are number of people who genuinely don't feel for him for various issues, be it the Sikh riots which triggered after the death of Indira Gandhi and the reason which he stated was

"When a big tree falls, the earth trembles!"

which is ridiculously, thousands of Sikhs was massacred during those period and the statement is absolutely ridiculously and atrocious and it looks like the people who were killed during the riots had no human values. The statement makes one think that the life of an important person is more valuable than the one of a commoner

He was accused in the bofors case and his name was left out only because he was alive, but the prime accused Quattrocchi had clear relationship with the Gandhi and he was a frequent visitor in his home, he was also blamed for not doing enough to punish the Bhopal Gas Tragedy victims. These are the key accusations which were against him.

The ads are posted in such a proportion that it makes one think that without him many things would have been impossible today, credit should be given to him for the development he brought in though computers but I doubt weather he should be credited for everything he is actually credited today by the Government/Party

In the past 3 years alone 300 Crores of Public money have spent to praise Rajeev Gandhi, today in the TV, I am seeing a small lecture of his which he gave in the US Congress 2 decades before as part of the ad program in the visual media.

The Telegraph has reported that the ministers in the Indian Government has used more money for the anniversary of Rajeev Gandhi than for all the other India Prime minister's anniversary put together. This clearly shows what the party in power does

"Union ministries released more ads on Rajiv Gandhi’s birthday today than on the anniversaries of the rest of India’s Prime Ministers put together in the past one year, Press Information Bureau sources said.”"

In New Delhi alone it is reported that 65 Advertisements praising and remembering

Gandhi have been given and I guess Ads about him will be featured in every National Newspaper in the country yesterday. And not to forget that there are hundred's of Educational institutes, Awards and Schemes named after Rajeev Gandhi, Nehru and Indira Gandhi, the Congress party has the ruled the country for the maximum number of times and only very recently the present PRIME MINISTER Manmohan Singh is the only minster apart of the Gandhi family to rule the country for the second consecutive time. According to me that is okay has long as anybody is elected in thought elections in a democratic way

India, even today is a developing country majority of the people who live in India get less than 1$ a day as their income and the people who are fighting poverty are huge in numbers during such a situation the Government should ensure that such HUGE amounts of money should not be spent in rememberence of someone, if the wish to fulfill his dreams which will be for the betterment of the people then the money used for advertising should be spent to fund those projects and if the dreams are fulfilled its no way right to spend such huge amount of public money. I remember when the Prime Minster Manmohan Singh during his previous tenure told in a meeting with top Indian Business men that C.E.O's should not be paid such huge amounts as salary which now looks very funny looking at the amount of MONEY spent by the Government of India to remember a Prime Minister.

I remember Rajeev Gandhi as a Prime Minster who contributed to the development of the country through his young leadership and who brought computer to the mainstream government office's and who has inspired many Indians but still spending crores of Public Money on his anniversary is unacceptable