India can't pardon Prabhakaran for killing Rajiv: Priyanka

Priyanka also downplayed the controversial comments of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam [ Images ] 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.