'Will Have To Come For Pa's Funeral': Sonia Gandhi Recalls Rahul's Warning

As Sonia Gandhi's world came crashing down on May 21, 1991, when Rajiv Gandhi was killed in an explosion, the eerie premonition made by her son Rahul echoed in her mind."If something isn't done about Pa's security, I know I'll soon have to come back for his funeral," Rahul had told his mother just two months earlier while on a tour with Rajiv.Sonia Gandhi recalls the fateful evening when Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, in her memoir "Belonging: A Journey of Love".

A woman on the pretense of offering him a garland detonated the explosives strapped to her body, killing the former prime minister and 14 others in his vicinity.The final attempt on Rajiv's life came a little over a year after his SPG cover was withdrawn by the VP Singh government, even though a committee met in December and decided that the Special Protection Group cover must continue "unless a change was warranted by some fresh threat assessment", Gandhi writes."No such review was ever undertaken.

The very next month the SPG cover was withdrawn by the VP Singh government.