Rajiv Gandhi

Rajiv Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi was the youngest Prime Minister of India. He became Prime Minister at the age of 40. Rajiv Gandhi came from a family that had great political lineage. He was the eldest son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi. Her mother Indira Gandhi and grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru were Prime Ministers of India.  As a Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi made valuable contributions in modernizing India.  He had the vision and foresight to see that information technology will play a key role in the 21 century and worked actively to develop India's capacity in this realm. As he repeatedly said, one of his main objectives, besides preserving India's unity, was to propel it into the twenty-first century.