Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tribute to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on the occasion of his birth anniversary. Modi took to social media platform X to pay homage to the former prime minister. “On the occasion of his birth anniversary, paying homage to former Prime Minister of India, Shri Rajiv Gandhi.” Rajiv Gandhi, who was born on August 20, 1944, in Bombay, now Mumbai, became India’s youngest prime minister at the age of 40. He was also among the youngest elected heads of government in the world. His mother, Indira Gandhi, was 49 when she first became prime minister in 1966, while his grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, was 58 when he began his 17-year tenure as independent India’s first prime minister. Rajiv Gandhi led Congress to a massive electoral victory Rajiv Gandhi’s entry into the country’s top political office marked a generational shift in Indian politics. Under his leadership, the Congress secured one of the largest electoral mandates in India’s history. In the Lok Sabha elections held after the assassination of Indira Gandhi …