Indian national congress indira gandhi biography

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    Indira Gandhi

    Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and 1980 to 1984

    Indira Gandhi

    Official portrait, 1983

    In office
    14 January 1980 – 31 October 1984
    PresidentNeelam Sanjiva Reddy
    Zail Singh
    Vice PresidentMohammad Hidayatullah
    Ramaswamy Venkataraman
    Preceded byCharan Singh
    Succeeded byRajiv Gandhi
    In office
    24 January 1966 – 24 March 1977
    PresidentSarvepalli Radhakrishnan
    Zakir Husain
    V. V. Giri
    Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
    B. D. Jatti(Acting)
    Vice President
    DeputyMorarji Desai (13 March 1967 – 16 July 1969)
    Preceded byLal Bahadur Shastri[a]
    Succeeded byMorarji Desai
    In office
    19 July 1984 – 31 October 1984
    Prime MinisterHerself
    Preceded byP. V. Narasimha Rao
    Succeeded byRajiv Gandhi
    In office
    6 September 1967 – 13 February 1969
    Prime MinisterHerself
    Preceded byM. C. Chagla
    Succeeded byDinesh Singh

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    Born on November 19, 1917 in an illustrious family, Smt. Indira Gandhi was the daughter of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. Being academically inclined, she studied at Ecole Nouvelle, Bex (Switzerland), Ecole Internationale, Geneva, Pupils' Own School, Poona and Bombay, Badminton School, Bristol, Vishwa Bharati, Shantiniketan and Somerville College, Oxford. She was conferred Honorary doctoral degree by a host of Universities such as Andhra, Agra, Bangalore, Vikram, Punjab, Gurukul, Nagpur, Jamia Milia, Poona, El Salvador of Buenos Aires, Waseda of Tokyo, Moscow State, Oxford, Charles of Prague, Mauritius, Baghdad and the U.S.S.R. With an impressive academic background she also got the Citation of Distinction from the Columbia University. Smt. Indira Gandhi was actively involved in the freedom struggle. In her early childhood she founded the Bal Charkha Sangh and in 1930, the 'Vanar Sena' of children to help the Congress party during the Non-Cooperation Movement. She was imprisoned in Septembe

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    SMT. INDIRA GANDHI

    Smt. Indira Gandhi saw herself as a latter day Joan of Arc—such was her ardour and faith in herself as a patriot. Like the "The Maid of Orléans", she too died as a martyr for the unity of her country. She had said before her tragic death: “Every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of this nation and make it strong and dynamic.”

    Smt. Indira Gandhi saw herself as a latter day Joan of Arc—such was her ardour and faith in herself as a patriot. Like the "The Maid of Orléans", she too died as a martyr for the unity of her country.

    She had said before her tragic death: “Every drop of my blood will contribute to the growth of this nation and make it strong and dynamic.”

    She was a woman of courage and admired people with fighting spirit, people who triumphed over handicaps. For instance, Helen Keller and Douglas Bader.

    In her childhood, her father was a source of inspiration to her. The letters Pt Nehru wrote to Indira Priyadarshini be