. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "\"I am alive today, I may not be there tomorrow ... I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it ... Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood ... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.\""@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Indira Gandhi"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "no"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "#CCDDFF"@en . . . . . "Somerville College, Oxford"@en . . . . . . "no"@en . . . . . . . "V. V. Giri"@en . . . . . . "1052812698"^^ . . . . . "1942-03-26"^^ . . "no"@en . . . . . . "15179"^^ . "no"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "0304156" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "25.0"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1967-08-22"^^ . "author:Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "no"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed"@en . . . . "1960-09-08"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "no"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Indira-Gandhi-Signature-Transparent.png" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1917-11-19"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Indira Gandhi"@en . "1984-10-31"^^ . . . . . . . . . . "Indira Priyadarshini Nehru"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "no"@en . . . . . . ""@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1975-12-20"^^ . . . "184260"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Sanjay Gandhi"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1973-02-04"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1984-03-09"^^ . . . "--06-09"^^ . . . . "Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindi: [\u02C8\u026And\u032A\u026A\u027E\u0251\u02D0 \u02C8\u0261\u0251\u02D0nd\u032A\u02B0i] (); n\u00E9e Nehru; 19 November 1917 \u2013 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was the 3rd prime minister of India and was also the first and, to date, only female prime minister of India. Gandhi was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the 1st prime minister of India. She served as prime minister from January 1966 to March 1977 and again from January 1980 until her assassination in October 1984, making her the second longest-serving Indian prime minister after her father. During Nehru's premiership from 1947 to 1964, Gandhi was considered a key assistant and accompanied him on his numerous foreign trips. She was elected president of the Indian National Congress in 1959. 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. In the Congress Party's parliamentary leadership election held in early 1966 (upon the death of Shastri), she defeated her rival Morarji Desai to become leader, and thus succeeded Shastri, after his death, as Prime Minister of India. As prime minister, Gandhi was known for her political intransigency and unprecedented centralisation of power. She went to war with Pakistan in support of the independence movement and war of independence in East Pakistan, which resulted in an Indian victory and the creation of Bangladesh, as well as increasing India's influence to the point where it became the sole regional power of South Asia. Citing separatist tendencies, and in response to a call for revolution, Gandhi instituted a state of emergency from 1975 to 1977 where basic civil liberties were suspended and the press was censored. Widespread atrocities were carried out during the emergency. In 1980, she returned to power after free and fair elections. After Gandhi ordered military action in the Golden Temple in Operation Blue Star, her own bodyguards and Sikh nationalists assassinated her on 31 October 1984. In 1999, Indira Gandhi was named \"Woman of the Millennium\" in an online poll organised by the BBC. In 2020, Gandhi was named by Time magazine among the world's 100 powerful women who defined the last century."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1966-01-24"^^ . "Indira-Gandhi-Signature-Transparent.png"@en . . . "1966-01-24"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . "see article"@en . "Gulzarilal Nanda"@en . . . . . "Indira Priyadarshini Nehru"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Zail Singh"@en . . . . "\u2014Gandhi\u2019s remarks on her last speech a day before her death at the then Parade Ground, Odisha."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1969-03-14"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "New Delhi, India"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Offices and distinctions"@en . . . . . . . "Q1149"@en . . . . . . . . . "Indira Gandhi"@en . "Assassination"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1970-06-27"^^ . . "1970-06-27"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1982-01-15"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "right"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1975-11-30"^^ . . . "1917-11-19"^^ . . . ""@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Category:Indira Gandhi"@en . . . . . . . . . "See Nehru\u2013Gandhi family"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1984-10-31"^^ . . . . . "1977-03-24"^^ . . . "Zakir Husain"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "died"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1969-07-17"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . "Gandhi in 1966"@en . "no"@en . "1964-06-09"^^ . . "Kamala Nehru"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Prime Minister of India"@en . . . . . . . . . "648"^^ . . . . . . . "3.0"^^ . . . "1980-01-14"^^ . . . . . . . . . . "Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindi: [\u02C8\u026And\u032A\u026A\u027E\u0251\u02D0 \u02C8\u0261\u0251\u02D0nd\u032A\u02B0i] (); n\u00E9e Nehru; 19 November 1917 \u2013 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was the 3rd prime minister of India and was also the first and, to date, only female prime minister of India. Gandhi was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the 1st prime minister of India. She served as prime minister from January 1966 to March 1977 and again from January 1980 until her assassination in October 1984, making her the second longest-serving Indian prime minister after her father."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1984-10-31"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .