Rahul Gandhi in Puducherry says he forgives his father’s killers

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that the killing of his father former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi brought him pain but he has no anger towards the people responsible, reported the Hindustan Times.

“I don’t have anger towards anybody,” the Congress leader said at an event at the Bharathidasan College for Women in Puducherry. “Of course, I lost my father and for me it was a difficult time. It’s like someone has cut your heart out. I felt tremendous pain. But I don’t feel angry. I don’t feel any hatred. I forgive.”

Gandhi said that a lot of things that he has said on the day comes from his father, who talks through him. “I still carry my father with me,” the Congress leader added. “Understand something – violence cannot take away anything from you. It doesn’t have that power. You can give up something but violence cannot take anything from you.”

Rajiv Gandhi was killed in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu’s Kanchipuram district on May…

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