On this day in 1991, former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi became the victim of a suicide bomber in Tamil Nadu's Siriperambudur where he had gone for a poll campaign. Today being his 24th death anniversary, his wife, Sonia Gandhi, the present Congress president, along with her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, paid tributes to her late husband at the former prime minister's memorial 'Vir Bhumi' in New Delhi. Some senior Congress leaders also paid their homage to Rajiv Gandhi.