Two months before former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was killed in an explosion, his son and now the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, had made eerie premonition regarding his death.

“If something isn’t done about Pa’s security, I know I’ll soon have to come back for his funeral,” Rahul told his mother, Sonia Gandhi , while he was on a tour with father.

Rajiv Gandhi died on May 21, 1991 after a woman on the pretense of offering him a garland detonated the explosives strapped to her body, killing him and 14 others in his vicinity.

The incident, one filled with profound loss for the Gandhi family, finds a detailed mention in Sonia Gandhi’s memoir.

She writes in the book that the final attempt on Rajiv’s life came a little over a year after his SPG cover was withdrawn by the then V P Singh government despite a committee deciding that the Special Protection Group cover must continue “unless a change was warranted by some fresh threat assessment.”

“No such review was ever undertaken.…