Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to pay tribute to India's former Prime Minister on her birth anniversary.
Indira Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917 and died in 1984 when her life ended in an assassination.
Congress leaders including Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh also visited the memorial of India's first woman prime minister.
Upon her father's death in 1964 she was appointed as a member of the Rajya Sabha (upper house) and became a member of Lal Bahadur Shastri's cabinet as Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
Singh expresses these views in his new book, 'Treasured Epistles', a collection of letters.
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Drawing parallel between Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the Union Finance Minister said that both turn democracy into dictatorship.
The younger Gandhi also told the IIM alumni in Malaysia that he and his sister Priyanka had "completely forgiven" their father's killers.
'I have always wanted to play Indira Gandhi', said Vidya Balan while talking about her role.
It was a big achievement for the BJP to win power in the state for a sixth term with more vote share, he said, asking party leaders not to be affected by the opposition's "disinformation campaign."
Jairam Ramesh said Gandhi followed her ‘mann ki baat’ and implemented it seriously.
Indira Gandhi, daughter of first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, was born on November 19, 1917.
Indira Gandhi, daughter of first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, was born on November 19, 1917. She was Prime Minister from January 1966 to March 1977 and again from January 1980 until her assassination on October 31, 1984.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday termed the upcoming Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections as a “one-sided contest” for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Sonia Gandhi said the liberal, tolerant Indian ethos that Indira Gandhi embodied is being rejected and repudiated.
PM Modi, Manmohan Singh and Congress VP Rahul Gandhi paid tributes to former PM Indira Gandhi on her death anniversary.
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched the Karnataka government's subsidised food canteens 'Indira Canteen' in Bengaluru.
Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said that had former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi been alive, no Congressman would have gone to the JNU to support students who raised anti-national slogans.
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