‘Great daughter of our motherland’: Rahul Gandhi, Congress remember Indira Gandhi on birth anniversary

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Thursday paid tribute to his grandmother and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 103rd delivery anniversary. Taking to Twitter, Gandhi remembered her as an “efficient Prime Minister” and as somebody who was a “form of power.”

“I pay my tribute on the birth anniversary of Smt. Indira Gandhi, an efficient Prime Minister and form of power. While the entire nation, even today, speaks of her impressive leadership, I always remember her as my beloved grandmother. Things she taught me inspire me everyday,” the previous Congress president posted on his Twitter deal with, additionally attaching with the tweet an image of his grandmother.

 

Gandhi additionally paid a go to to Shakti Sthal, the memorial of Indira Gandhi within the nationwide capital, to pay his tribute to her.

 

The official deal with of the Congress, in the meantime, remembered Indira Gandhi as a “trail blazer, visionary, true leader and great daughter of India.” The celebration tweeted: “A trailblazer, a visionary, a true leader and a great daughter of our motherland, Smt. Indira Gandhi was much more than a Prime Minister to our citizens; she was the revitalising strength in their quest for greatness and prosperity. Today, we pay a proud tribute to India’s Indira.”

 

Born on November 19, 1917, Indira Gandhi was the daughter of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and one in every of three members of the Nehru-Gandhi household to carry that workplace, with Rahul Gandhi’s father and Indira Gandhi’s elder son Rajiv Gandhi being the third.

Indira Gandhi was the third Prime Minister of India and the second-longest serving after her father. She additionally held different essential portfolios like Defence, Finance, Home and Finance. Indira Gandhi can be remembered for India’s decisive victory over Pakistan in 1971, which led to the creation of Bangladesh, in addition to the close to 24-month Emergency imposed by her in 1975.

She was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984 for sending the military contained in the Golden Temple earlier that yr to free it from Sikh separatists. Her assassination led to anti-Sikh riots throughout India.