Click to play videoNew Delhi: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi says he supports his sister Priyanka Vadra’s decision to meet a conspirator in their father’s assassination and his family doesn’t want to carry “anger and hatred”.
"I have a different way of looking at these things," said Rahul when asked if he too wanted to meet the convicted conspirator.
Rahul was commenting on Priyanka meeting Nalini Sriharan, one of those convicted for the assassination of their father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, in a prison in Vellore on March 19.
"We don’t carry hatred. We don't carry anger. It's not an exercise. She felt that she wanted to go and see the person. She has been feeling it for some time," Rahul said.
Priyanka on Tuesday confirmed to CNN-IBN she had met Nalini. “Yes, I did. The visit reported on March 19 as a visit to Vellore temple was not to the temple. I went to speak with her,” she said when asked to comment on a newspaper’s report.
“It's completely personal. I don't want to say anything about it but I needed to make peace with all the violence in my life,” she said.
“It was purely a personal visit on my own initiative which must be respected. I do not believe in anger or violence and I refuse to let it overpower me. Meeting Nalini was my way of coming to terms with my father's death," she said later in a press statement.
Nalini, 43, was sentenced to death by a special court for her involvement in Rajiv Gandhi's assassination at Sriperumbudur near Chennai on May 21,1991.
The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment after Rajiv’s wife Sonia Gandhi petitioned for clemency for the sake of Nalini's daughter.
Nalini, an Indian, had accompanied the Sri Lankan woman suicide bomber who blew up Rajiv Gandhi with hidden explosives at Sriperumbudur. Nalini, who was a close friend of an LTTE operative known as Murugan, who too is an accused in the case, later gave birth to a girl in prison.
(With inputs from IANS)
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