Anti-Terrorism Day: K'aka Chief Secretary organize pledge taking ceremony for officials

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Secretary TM Vijay Bhaskar on Tuesday organised a pledge taking ceremony for the officials working at his office in order to mark the Anti-Terrorism Day.

The officials and other workers of Vijay Bhaskar’s office took an oath to work against terrorism at the ceremony was organised at Vidhansouda’s auditorium hall.

May 22 is observed as the Anti-Terrorism day in India to mark the death anniversary of former PM Rajiv Gandhi. Rajiv was killed on May 22, 1991 by a woman operative of LTTE, who greeted him at a rally in Tamil Nadu with a bomb strapped to her body.

Earlier in the day, Congress President Rahul Gandhi, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi paid tributes to Rajiv Gandhi on his 28th death anniversary at Veer Bhumi.

Besides the Gandhi family, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former president Pranab Mukherjee, among other senior party leaders, were also present at Veer Bhumi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi also paid tribute to the former prime minister on Twitter. He wrote “Tributes to former PM Shri Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary”.