Rajiv Gandhi News
25 years of India's 'Watergate': The Bofors scandal
Chronology of events since the 1986 Bofors howitzer payoff scandal - one of the biggest corruption scandals in India in which then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and many others were accused of receiving kickbacks from the Swedish gun manufacturer and which was called India's 'Watergate' by a New York court after it led to the fall of the Rajiv Gandhi government. March 24, 1986: A Rs.1,500 crore ($285
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