On 21 May 1991 , D. Pandian was seriously injured while accompanying former Indian Prime Minister , Shri Rajiv Gandhi , when the latter was assassinated in a suicide bomb attack . Pandian was scheduled to translate the speech of Shri Rajiv Gandhi . Though opposed to LTTE 's militancy during the Sri Lankan civil war , he was a vocal critic of the Sri Lankan government 's approach to the issue of Sri Lankan Tamils and called upon India to exert pressure on Sri Lankan government to find a peaceful political solution to the problem
assassinated in a suicide bomb attack
Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
D. Pandian