Amethi: Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said he was sad over the Tamil Nadu government’s decision to set free all the seven people convicted in the assassination of his father and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
“I am sad the killers are being released,” Rahul said with a tinge of emotion, while noting that the assassins of his father, who worked for the rights of the people, were being set free.
Rahul also said that if a Prime Minister, who sacrificed his life for the nation, does not get justice how will a common man get justice.
“I don’t believe in capital punishment as it won’t bring my father back. But it is not just a matter of my father or the family, it is the matter of the country,” he added.
Besides Santhan, Murugan, the husband of Nalini, Perarivalan, who earned a major reprieve from the Apex Court on Wednesday which spared them from gallows, Nalini, Robert Pious, Jayakumar and Ravichandran would walk out from prison.
Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who took the decision for early release of the Rajiv killers at an emergency Cabinet meeting convened this morning over the issue, made a suo motu announcement in the state assembly.
