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Priyanka Gandhi Posed Questions On Rajiv's Assassination: Nalini Sriharan

Priyanka Gandhi turned emotional and cried when she met her in the Vellore Central Prison over a decade ago, Nalini told reporters answering a question on the meeting

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asked about the killing of her father Rajiv Gandhi when she met her in prison in 2008, Nalini Sriharan, one of the convicts freed in the former prime minister's assassination case said on Sunday.

Priyanka Gandhi turned emotional and cried when she met her in the Vellore Central Prison over a decade ago, Nalini told reporters answering a question on the meeting. Now, a Congress party leader, she had then sought to know about the assassination of her father and Nalini said she divulged whatever she knew.

"Priyanka Gandhi met me in jail and she asked me about her father's killing. She got emotional for her father. She cried too," Nalini said, while addressing the press conference.

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Other things that transpired in that meeting cannot be disclosed as it pertained to Priyanka's personal views, she said. Nalini was freed on November 12 following a Supreme Court order.

Nalini, who is the longest-serving woman prisoner serving a life sentence in the country, was released from the Vellore jail on Saturday following an order from the Supreme Court on Friday, freeing all six convicts including RP Ravichandran, in the case, said an ANI report.

Nalini further urged the Tamil Nadu government to take the necessary actions to release her husband as soon as possible from the Trichy Special camp.

"I want to see Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin. I want to meet CM Stalin soon and really want to thank him. I am very thankful to the Gandhi family. I am ready to meet them if I get a chance to meet them," she said adding, "We have been treated in jail like death convicts. Even when I was two months pregnant, they locked me inside the prison."

(With inputs from agencies)

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