[This sounds just too ominous.
May give wrong people wrong ideas.
Even if, he's perhaps only shoring up his credentials as the PM candidate.

《Mr Gandhi also spoke about the assassination of his grandmother Indira
Gandhi and father Rajiv, stressing that it was a price that the family knew
they had to pay for taking a stand. "In politics, when you mess with the
wrong forces, and if you stand for something, you will die", he said.》]

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/we-have-completely-forgiven-them-rahul-gandhi-on-his-fathers-killers-1822303

"I Told Him He Was Going To Die": Rahul Gandhi On Father's Assassination
Mr Gandhi also spoke about the assassination of his grandmother Indira
Gandhi and stressing that it was a price that the family knew they had to
pay for taking a stand.

All India | Edited by Aloke Tikku | Updated: March 11, 2018 08:35 IST

'I Told Him He Was Going To Die': Rahul Gandhi On Father's Assassination
Rahul Gandhi has on previous occasions declined to talk about his father's
assasinators

SINGAPORE:

HIGHLIGHTS
"We knew my grandmother and father were going to die," says Rahul Gandhi
"It was a price that the family knew they had to pay for taking a stand"
Both Priyanka Vadra and he have forgiven their father's killers, he says

 Rahul Gandhi, son of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by
the LTTE, has said that he and sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had
"completely" forgiven their father's killers. "For many years, we were
quite upset and hurt, but somehow... (we have) completely (forgiven them),"
an emotional Mr Gandhi said to a loud applause by the audience during a
programme in Singapore.

Mr Gandhi also spoke about the assassination of his grandmother Indira
Gandhi and father Rajiv, stressing that it was a price that the family knew
they had to pay for taking a stand. "In politics, when you mess with the
wrong forces, and if you stand for something, you will die", he said.

"We knew that my father was going to die. We knew that my grandmother was
going to die," he said.

"My grandmother told me she was going to die and my father...I told him he
was going to die," Mr Gandhi said on Friday. The Congress put out a video
of the hour-long question-and-answer session on its Twitter handle.

Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984 by security guards with whom he used
to play badminton.

Rajiv Gandhi was blown up by a Sri Lankan Tamil woman suicide bomber at an
election rally near Chennai in 1991. It was an assassination that LTTE
ideologue Anton Balasingham, according to a 2016 book, had conceded was the
outfit's "biggest mistake".

Mr Gandhi, 47, has spoken about his father's assassination in the past but
so far, declined to talk about his father's assassins. Like when J
Jayalalithaa had proposed to release the seven persons serving a life term
in 2016, the Congress had strongly objected but Mr Gandhi had underlined
this was a decision the government had to take. "I will not give my
personal opinion on this," he had said.

Mr Gandhi opened up to talking about how he and his sister looked at the
assassination and the assassins during the interaction with IIM alumni in
Singapore.

The session had started with a question on the privileges that Mr Gandhi,
who is often derided for his political career as a member of the Congress'
first family the Gandhi-Nehrus, had enjoyed.

Yes, there were a number of privileges "where I sit but I wouldn't say I
haven't been through a rough ride," he said, starting to talk about the
assassination of his grandmother Indira Gandhi and father Rajiv Gandhi.

"So you live in a particular environment, surrounded by 15 guys, morning,
noon and night. I don't think that's a privilege," he said.

But these tragedies, he said, had conditioned him to see the human face
behind the killings and not hate anyone.

Mr Gandhi recalled that when he saw Prabhakaran lying dead on the
television in 2009, two thoughts had crossed his mind. "I got two feelings
- first was why they are humiliating this man in this way... and second
was...I felt really bad... his family and kids. I understood deeply what it
meant to be on the other side, he said, going to speak about the phone call
he made to his sister.

"He killed papa," Mr Gandhi told her. "I should be happy that he is dead.
Why am I not happy," he reminisced. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra told him she was
feeling exactly the same.


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