Indira Gandhi: On the occasion of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s birthday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays respect to her. Indira Gandhi was born to a Kashmiri Pandit household on November 19, 1917, in Allahabad. On October 31, 1984, she passed away. Indira Gandhi was a prominent member of the Indian National Congress and an Indian politician. In addition to becoming India’s first and only female prime minister, she was chosen as the third prime minister of our country in 1966. She received harsh criticism from the media and the opposition at the beginning of her first tenure for being a “Goongi goodiya” of Congress party officials who had manipulated her election and then attempted to restrain her.
The saying “India is Indira and Indira is India“
Gandhi underwent a transformation during her first eleven years in office from a Congress party leader’s puppet to a powerful leader with the iron resolve to either split the party over her policy stances or to go to war with Pakistan to aid Bangladesh in its independence fight in 1971. At the end of 1977, she had such sway over Indian politics that D K Barooah, the leader of the Congress party, came up with the saying “India is Indira and Indira is Indira.” In Gandhi’s administration, Morarji Desai was named deputy prime minister and minister of finance.
Indira Gandhi is the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru and a crucial aide
Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, was the father of Gandhi. After her father, she served as prime minister of India for the second-longest period of time, from January 1966 to March 1977 and then again from January 1980 till her murder in October 1984. Gandhi served as Nehru’s principal aide from 1947 until 1964 and travelled extensively with him abroad. She was chosen to lead the Indian National Congress in 1959. She was appointed to the Rajya Sabha (upper house) upon the passing of her father in 1964, and she later served as Minister of Information and Broadcasting in Lal Bahadur Shastri’s administration.
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She overcame her challenger Morarji Desai to win the leadership of the Congress Party in the legislative elections that were held in early 1966 (after Shastri’s passing); she then succeeded Shastri as Prime Minister of India. The name Indira Gandhi was given to Indira Nehru. Being the first Prime Minister of the Dominion (and later the Republic of India), her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, played a significant role in the fight for Indian independence from British control. She grew raised with her mother, Kamala Nehru, in the Anand Bhavan, a sizable family estate near Allahabad, as the sole child (her younger brother passed away when he was small).
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A lonesome upbringing
She had a lonely and sad upbringing. Her mother stayed at home while her father was frequently out, either supervising political activities or incarcerated. Mother frequently spent time in bed due to illness, and she passed away from tuberculosis at a young age. She wrote letters to her father as her only form of communication.
One who adheres to Mahatma Gandhi
Young Indira was with Mahatma Gandhi in 1924 during his fast. Indira is seen wearing khadi in accordance with Gandhi’s call for all Indians to do away with British-made clothing.
Gandhi’s political journey
Gandhi’s resonant subject for his political campaign in 1971 was Garibi Hatao (Remove Poverty), which was inspired by Indira Gandhi’s political odyssey. The Garibi Hatao campaign’s anti-poverty initiatives were designed to provide Gandhi independent national support based on the needs of the poor in both the rural and urban areas. She would be able to stay away from the urban commercial elite and the dominating rural castes in municipal and state governments. For their part, the formerly voiceless poor would finally acquire political weight and worth. While the Garibi Hatao programmes were implemented locally, they were established and supported by the Central Government in New Delhi. The slogan was developed in response to the joint opposition alliance’s deployment of the two-word manifesto “Indira Hatao” (Remove Indira).
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