Congress star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi [Images] on Tuesday said India as a nation cannot forgive Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam chief V Prabhakaran for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi [Images] though personally she and her family harbours no "hatred or anger" against killers of her father. Priyanka also downplayed the controversial comments of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief M Karunanidhi [Images] that Prabhakaran is not a terrorist, saying she would have no "personal grief" even if anybody "praises" the LTTE [Images] chief.
"This issue is both political and personal for me. I fully understand politically the former Prime Minister of India was assassinated and they (LTTE) cannot be pardoned by India as a nation," she said when asked what treatment she would like to be meted out to Prabhakaran if he is handed over to India by Sri Lanka [Images].
She, however, hastened to add that, "From humanity point of view, I have nothing against them (killers) in my heart...neither anger nor hatred."
Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by LTTE in a suicide bomb attack in Tamil Nadu on May 21, 1991. Priyanka, in interviews to the media in Amethi while campaigning for brother Rahul Gandhi [Images], referred to her meeting with Nalini, one of the convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, and described it as a learning experience.
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