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For twenty-five years a myth has been perpetuated that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by the LTTE because it feared his return to power in 1991. But if this basic premise is disputed and the alternate scenario is shown, that the Congress which returned to power in 1991, fell short of a simple majority, even after Rajiv's death, then the entire bottom of this thesis is knocked off and the whole theory falls flat on its nose. This book is also about conspiracies and intrigue, but it has attempted to explode this myth and seeks to find why Rajiv was killed if he was not likely to return to power in the 1991 mid-term elections? The most disturbing aspect of the whole case constructed by CBI-SIT...is its inability to explain why Sivasaran, supposedly the chief conspirator, did not escape to Jaffna by boat immediately after killing Rajiv. What kept him back? Who was he waiting for? Who was he banking upon to provide him a safe haven? Did he fear returning to Jaffna and why? This book looks at who benefitted politically from slaughtering the proverbial sacrificial goat. It explores the politics of the time-which in the author's perception was responsible for what he describes as a major coverup of the real conspiracy to assassinate Rajiv Gandhi.