Cadres and leaders of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee on Saturday paid floral tributes to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 31st death anniversary.
Led by TNCC chief K S Alagiri, Congress workers paid homage at the Rajiv Gandhi Memorial in Sriperumbudur near here. The memorial was the site where the former Prime Minister was assassinated by a woman suicide bomber on May 21, 1991. The participants took an anti-terrorism pledge. A 'Rajiv Jyothi' motorcycle yatra, which was flagged off on May 20 by Congress Lok Sabha MP Vijay Vasanth at Tiruvotriyur here reached Sriperumbudur, a distance of about 57 km on Saturday. The Rajiv torch was handed over to Alagiri and party MP Su Thirunavukkarasar and K Selvaperunthagai, who is the Congress legislature party leader. At the TNCC headquarters, 'Sathyamurthi Bhavan', here Congress leaders paid floral tributes to a decorated portrait of Rajiv Gandhi.