Indira Gandhi Biography

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Indira Gandhi Biography

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi - was the only female Prime Minister of India's first and even so far and the focal point of the Indian National Congress. Indira Gandhi who served the country from 1966 to 1977 and later again from 1980 to 1984 in her murder. Indira Gandhi was second in terms of being India's longest Prime Minister and she was the only woman to hold the office of Prime Minister.

Full name - Indira Firoz Gandhi
Birth - 19th September 1917
Birthplace - Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh)
Father - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Mother- Kamala Jawaharlal Nehru
Education - Allahabad, Pune, Bombay, Kolkata, their education took place this place. For higher education, he took admission in Oxford University of England; Some Karanavans had to return to their country without leaving a degree without teaching.
Marriage - 1942 with Feroz Gandhi

Indira Gandhi was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. Indira served as the chief minister of the national level body of her father from 1947-1964. Given his contribution, he was made the President of the National Congress in 1959.

After the death of his father in 1964, Indira ji left the struggle to become the leader of the Congress Party and was determined to become a cabinet minister in Lal Bahadur Shastri's government. After Shastri's death, Congress President Indira Gandhi defeated Morarji Desai in the assembly elections and became India's first woman Prime Minister.

As Prime Minister, Indira ji was known for her political cruelty and unmatched concentration. He was also ready to cooperate with Pakistan for independence, he cooperated with them in the battle for independence of Pakistan, from which Pakistan achieved victory and Bangladesh was formed.

Indira Gandhi declared states of emergency in states from 1975 to 1977 and ordered to implement it in all the states. In 1984, when he was ordering Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar of Punjab, he was assassinated by his learned bodyguard.

Indira Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917 in Allahabad in Kashmiri Pandit family, under the name of Indira Nehru. His father, Jawaharlal Nehru, was a great politician who fought for freedom from the British at the political level.

Then he was appointed the prime minister of his state union and later the Prime Minister of India. Indira was the only daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru (she also had a younger brother, but she was killed only in her childhood) who grew up in Anand Bhavan with her mother Kamala Nehru. In Allahabad, there was a lot of property for his family.

Indira's childhood was full of annoyance and loneliness. Because of his father being political, he has been living outside the house for several days and either in jail. Because of his illness, his mother used to stay on the bed. And later his mother soon received death due to tuberculosis. And Indira had very little relationship with her father. Most of those letters kept their behavior.

Indira ji was mostly taught at home, and intermittently, she would also go to school for the metric. He has been a student of Modern School, St. Susilia and St. Mary Christian's Convent School, Allahabad in Delhi. Along with this, Ecole International, Geneva, Ecole Nouvelle, Becks and Pupils on School, again and Bombay have also been studying.

Later he went to the University of Bharti College of Shantiniketan to study. And at the time of his interview, Rabindranath Tagore named him Priyadarshini and since then he was recognized by the name of Indira Priyadarshini Nehru. A year later, he left the university because of his mother's illness and went to Europe.

It is said that he completed his studies from Oxford University. After the death of his mother, in 1937, he was admitted to Badminton School before studying History. Gandhiji did twice the entrance examination, he did not have much hold in the Latin language. At the University of Oxford, he was good in history, political science and economics but in Latin was not so good that he was the subject matter he was not so smart.

In Europe, Indira ji was surrounded by a major disease, many times the doctor used to go and visit her. She wanted to be as well as possible so that she could pay attention to her studies again. When the Nazi army was rapidly defeating Europe, Indira was reading at that time. Indira ji also made many attempts to come to Portugal from Portugal, but she had only two months left.

But in 1941 he finally came to England and returned to India without completing his studies there. Later his university honors the degree.

In 2010, Oxford honored her by taking her name in 10 ideal students. Indira was an ideal woman of Asia at Oxford University.

While living in Great Britain, Indira ji got her future husband Feroze Gandhi (who had no connection with Mahatma Gandhi). Whom he knew from Allahabad and studied in London's Economics Schultz. And later, according to Adi Dharma, Feroz Zorastrian was from the Parsi family. And in Allahabad, both of them (Indira Nehru and Feroz Gandhi) were married.

In 1950, after the marriage, Indira Gandhi unofficially started serving as her father's personal assistant in the campaign to become Prime Minister.

By the end of 1950, Indira ji served as the president of the Congress Party. He also tried to make Kerala state separate but in 1959 the government rejected it. Its main purpose was that Indira wanted to create a communist government.

After his father's death in 1964, he was appointed a member of the Rajya Sabha. He later became a member of Lal Bahadur Shastri's cabinet and became a minister of information campaign.

After Shastri's death in 1966, the Congress party accepted Indira Gandhi as her leader in place of Morarji Desai. Kamaraj, a veteran Congress Party member, helped him out in the victory of Indira ji.

Indira Gandhi was a patriot. The country service was full of ciphers. She always said,

"You should learn to be stable at the time of activity and to be active at rest."

It means that one should do it with a conscious mind while doing any work. As well as being active in life, relaxation is also necessary so that we can make our brain more active.

Information of Indira Gandhi at a glance 

In order to help the volunteers of the Congress during the 1930 Civil Rule Breaking Movement, they established 'Chhota Chhapo Chakchi' Vanarsena.

In 1942, he was sentenced to jail for being involved in the 'Chale Jaav' movement.

He was elected the National Congress Working Member in 1955 and the President of the National Congress in 1959.

After the death of Pandit Nehruji in 1964, Lal Bahadur Shastri became the Prime Minister of India and took over as the Minister of Indira Gandhi / Indira Gandhi Information and Improvement Account.

After the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966, Indira ji was elected to the post of Prime Minister. On the map of Hindustan, he was honored to be the first woman Prime Minister.

Under the leadership of the old Congress leaders, due to the cracks falling in the Congress party in 1969, Indicate Congress led by Syndicate Congress and Indira Gandhi was born to such two parties. In the same year, he started the implementation of progressive and philanthropic schemes with great power. Nationalization of the country's fourteen largest banks and the decision to cancel the institute.

In 1971, Indiraji announced the pre election of the Lok Sabha by immersing the Lok Sabha. In this election he announced the declaration of 'Garibi Hatao'. In this Lok Sabha election, his party won the majority. All the formulas of the Congress side are centered in their hands. And he became the supreme leader of the Congress.

In order to liberate the oppressed people of East Pakistan in East Bengal, repeatedly attacking India, they have helped them with the help of 'India' and 'Pakistan' and 'Pakistan'.

Prior to that, Indira Gandhi, keeping in mind the good relations of Pakistan with America, cleverly signed a twenty years historical friendship and mutual cooperation agreement with Soviet Union in 1971. In view of his remarkable achievements, the President honored him with his highest civilian honor in Bharat Ratna in 1971.

In 1972, Indiraji presented his handiwork by making the 'Shimla Agreement' from Pakistan.

In 1975, the Allahabad High Court was adjudged ineligible to elect a Lok Sabha from the Rae Bareli constituency of Indiraji. Indira Gandhi introduced the emergency in 1975. But India's democracy boyfriend was upset because of that

Congress lost its Lok Sabha election in 1977. Indira Gandhi's Rae Bareli constituency itself is defeated. This resulted in such an outcome of the Janata Party, but due to the feuding of the party components of that party and the government, the Congress had won a spectacular victory in the Lok Sabha elections in the May 1980 election. And Indiraji and once again became the Prime Minister.

He was an important part of the successful organizing of the 9th Asian Games in Delhi in 1982.

In 1983, the seventh summit of the Council of the Non-Aligned Nations was held in New Delhi. Indira Gandhi was entrusted with the leadership of this council's untied nation's movement. Pakistan was being attacked by Pakistan for making a nation named 'Khalistan', a free nation of Sikh extremists of Punjab. Indira Gandhi / Indira Gandhi sent soldiers to the golden temple due to Shikh Extremists' arms kept in holy places like Golden Temple in Amritsar.

By taking military action, the anti-national terrorists have to be killed. Some people got angry with this incident. The result of this was that on October 31, 1984, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh shot them by the bodyguards.

Indira Gandhi Awards - Awards: 'Bharat Ratna' in 1971

Indira Gandhi Specialty:

  • India's first woman Prime Minister
  • First lady to get Bharat Ratna
  • Indira Gandhi Death - Death: She died on October 31, 1984.

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