India Today had covered the story on Rajiv Gandhi vacationing on INS Viraat exclusively back in 1988, Anita Pratap writes, "The island had been chosen with care: it is the only one in the strategic archipelago on which foreigners are not banned"
Ahmed Patel is blatantly lying. At the time of Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, Chandrasekhar, not VP Singh was the PM of India, a government that was in power due to Congress' support. India was facing another general election because Rajiv's Congress had decided to withdraw that support.