Indira Gandhi Birthday: PM Modi pays tribute to former PM birth anniversary

Indira Gandhi Birthday: Saturday marks the 105th birth anniversary of India’s first and, to date, the only female Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who was also known as ‘Iron Lady’ of the country. Indira Gandhi Birthday: PM Modi pays tribute to former PM birth anniversary.

Born on November 19, 1917, as Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi, she was the daughter of the country’s first Prime Minister Dr Jawahar Lal Nehru. During her life, she played a central role in the functioning of Indian National Congress (INC). Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays tribute to former PM birth anniversary.

Indira Gandhi was born on November 19, 1917, in Allahabad, to a Kashmiri Pandit family. She died on October 31, 1984. Indira Gandhi was an Indian politician who was a key figure in the Indian National Congress. She was elected as our nation’s third Prime Minister in 1966, and she was also the first and, to this day, only female Prime Minister of India.

At the start of her first term as Prime Minister, she was widely criticised by the media and the opposition for being a “Goongi goodiya” of Congress party bosses who had orchestrated her election and then tried to constrain her. Indira Gandhi was the daughter of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

She was the second longest-serving Indian prime minister after her father, serving from January 1966 to March 1977 and again from January 1980 until her assassination in October 1984. From 1947 to 1964, Gandhi was considered Nehru’s key assistant and accompanied him on numerous foreign trips. In 1959, she was elected president of the Indian National Congress.

After her father died in 1964, she was appointed to the Rajya Sabha (upper house) and joined Lal Bahadur Shastri’s cabinet as Minister of Information and Broadcasting. Garibi Hatao (Remove Poverty) was Gandhi’s resonant theme for his 1971 political campaign.

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The Garibi Hatao slogan and accompanying anti-poverty programmes were intended to give Gandhi independent national support based on the rural and urban poor. This would enable her to avoid the dominant rural castes in state and local governments, as well as the urban commercial class.

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The previously voiceless poor, for their part, would finally gain political worth and political weight. Garibi Hatao programmes, while carried out locally, were funded and developed by the Central Government in New Delhi. In response to the combined opposition alliance’s use of the two-word manifesto “Indira Hatao” the slogan was created (Remove Indira).