Who assassinated my Dad? Priyanka asked Nalini

The lawyer talked to Nalini after her meeting with Priyanka on March 19 at the high security Vellore Prison. Nalini is undergoing life imprisonment for her involvement in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.

Priyanka told her that if the killers had any problem with her father they could have solved it through a dialogue and should not have resorted to the extreme step of killing him, Doraisamy quoted Nalini as telling him.

“Priyanka wanted to know from Nalini who were the conspirators and who were behind the assassination”, Doraisamy said.

Nalini, however, didn’t reply.

Priyanka had told her “my father was a good person. Do you know about my father’s good nature? If you had known, you would have not killed him”, Nalini narrated her discussions with Priyanka to him, he said.

Nalini told Priyanka that she was one of five present at the spot at Sriperumbudur on the fateful night of May 21, 1991, when the former prime minister was assassinated by suicide-bomber Dhanu who triggered the explosive after getting close to him on the pretext of touching his feet.

Priyanka sitting by her side asked her many questions like “Why it happened? What was the purpose of the assassination, what was your role in the killing?”. Nalini didn’t replied to any of the questions, Doraisamy told.