<p>Visibly “hurt and anguished” over Tamil Nadu government’s decision to free seven people convicted in the assassination of his father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said it was sad that in India even a former prime minister did not get justice.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Rahul, who reacted twice within an interval of a few hours, sought to link the move with what he described his “fight to ensure justice for the poor in the country”.<br /><br />“In India, even the former prime minister does not get justice,” Rahul said in his Lok Sabha constituency of Amethi.<br /><br />“It is something close to my heart and therefore I am sharing it with you (people)... Rajivji was also close to you....he has worked here (Amethi),” he said to the emotional outbursts from the people among the crowd. <br /><br />Many in the crowd also decried the Tamil Nadu government decision.<br /><br />“Someone asked me if I was angry or if I was saddened. I am not angry. My father is not going to come back. I felt that if a prime minister could not get justice what about the common man?” he remarked.<br /><br />“I am against capital punishment. But it is not something that concerns my father only. It concerns the entire country, not my family only,” the Congress leader said.<br /><br />“If someone can kill my father and he is released from prison then how can a common man hope to get justice. We have to change India,” he said. The Congress leader also said that the decision had taught him a lesson.<br /><br />“I pondered over whether I can take something out of it (decision to release the killers). A day will come when every one gets justice. That is what I have been fighting for,” he added.<br /><br />Tamil Nadu government’s controversial decision comes soon after the Supreme Court commuted their death sentence to life imprisonment.</p>
<p>Visibly “hurt and anguished” over Tamil Nadu government’s decision to free seven people convicted in the assassination of his father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said it was sad that in India even a former prime minister did not get justice.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Rahul, who reacted twice within an interval of a few hours, sought to link the move with what he described his “fight to ensure justice for the poor in the country”.<br /><br />“In India, even the former prime minister does not get justice,” Rahul said in his Lok Sabha constituency of Amethi.<br /><br />“It is something close to my heart and therefore I am sharing it with you (people)... Rajivji was also close to you....he has worked here (Amethi),” he said to the emotional outbursts from the people among the crowd. <br /><br />Many in the crowd also decried the Tamil Nadu government decision.<br /><br />“Someone asked me if I was angry or if I was saddened. I am not angry. My father is not going to come back. I felt that if a prime minister could not get justice what about the common man?” he remarked.<br /><br />“I am against capital punishment. But it is not something that concerns my father only. It concerns the entire country, not my family only,” the Congress leader said.<br /><br />“If someone can kill my father and he is released from prison then how can a common man hope to get justice. We have to change India,” he said. The Congress leader also said that the decision had taught him a lesson.<br /><br />“I pondered over whether I can take something out of it (decision to release the killers). A day will come when every one gets justice. That is what I have been fighting for,” he added.<br /><br />Tamil Nadu government’s controversial decision comes soon after the Supreme Court commuted their death sentence to life imprisonment.</p>
