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  • Nehal Rathi

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    Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian government official and a focal figure of the Indian National Congress. She was the first and, until this point, just female Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first PM of India. She filled in as PM from January 1966 to March 1977 and again from January 1980 until her death in October 1984, making her the second-longest-serving Indian PM after Jawaharlal Nehru.

    During Nehru’s time as Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964, Gandhi was viewed as a key associate and went with him on his various unfamiliar excursions. She was chosen President of the Indian National Congress in 1959. Upon her dad’s demise in 1964, she was named as an individual from the Rajya Sabha (upper house) and turned into an individual from Lal Bahadur Shastri’s bureau as Minister of Information and Broadcasting. In the Congress Party’s parliamentary authority political decision held in mid-1966 (upon the passing of Shastri), she crushed her adversary Morarji Desai to become a pioneer and hence succeeded Shastri as Prime Minister of India.

    As an executive, Gandhi was known for her political intransigency and phenomenal centralization of force. She did battle with Pakistan on the side of the autonomy development and battle of freedom in East Pakistan, which brought about an Indian triumph and the making of Bangladesh, just as expanding India’s impact to where it turned into the sole provincial force of South Asia. Referring to dissenter propensities, and because of a call for upset, Gandhi organized a highly sensitive situation from 1975 to 1977 where fundamental common freedoms were suspended and the press was controlled. Inescapable monstrosities were completed during the crisis. In 1980, she got back to control after free and reasonable decisions. After Gandhi requested military activity in the Golden Temple in Operation Blue Star, her own protectors and Sikh patriots killed her on 31 October 1984.

    In 1999, Indira Gandhi was named “Lady of the Millennium” in an online survey coordinated by the BBC. In 2020, Gandhi was named by Time magazine among the world’s 100 influential ladies who characterized the most recent century.

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