He became Congress President under the mentorship of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, was able to fulfill her father's dream by the 42nd amendment ( 1976 ) of the Indian constitution by which India officially became " socialist " and " secular ".

They became widely recognized and accepted throughout the region during the premiership of Indira Gandhi and the 3-year rule of the Janata Party ( 1977 – 1980 ).

Although Gandhi did not originate the All-India Muslim Conference, which directed the movement in India, he soon became its most prominent spokesman and attracted a strong base of Muslim support with local chapters in all Muslim centers in India.

In 1920 Gandhi became a major leader in Congress.

The result was that Gandhi became not only a folk hero but the Congress was widely seen in the villages as his sacred instrument.

His widow Sonia Gandhi became the leader of the Congress party in 1998, and led the party to victory in the 2004 elections.

Elected to Sanjay's Lok Sabha ( parliamentary ) constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh state in February 1981, Gandhi became an important political advisor to his mother.

It was widely perceived that Indira Gandhi was grooming Rajiv for the prime minister's job, and he soon became the president of the Youth Congress – the Congress party's youth wing.

Rajiv Gandhi also officially became the President of the Congress party.

In 1967, after Indira Gandhi became the prime minister, the work on nuclear programme resumed with new a attitude and goals.

Meeting Gandhi a month later at the Gujarat Political Conference in Godhra, Patel became the secretary of the Gujarat Sabha — a public body which would become the Gujarati arm of the Indian National Congress — at Gandhi's encouragement.

The Indian National Congress, led by Sonia Gandhi became the single largest party and, along with many minor parties, formed the United Progressive Alliance.

Deeply impressed and influenced by Congress leader Mahatma Gandhi, he became a loyal follower, first of Gandhi, and then of Jawaharlal Nehru.

At the time, he also became interested in the actions of Mahatma Gandhi, whom he met personally, and the Satyagraha as a phenomenon ; later, Eliade adapted Gandhian ideas in his discourse on spirituality and Romania.

For Gandhi, satyagraha went far beyond mere " passive resistance " and became strength in practising non-violent methods.

After Mahatma Gandhi joined the Indian independence movement in 1919, Rajaji became one of his followers.

Desai was a young lawyer in Ahmedabad when he decided to join Gandhi along with Narhari Parikh, Mohanlal Pandya and Ravi Shankar Vyas, and became his most devoted secretary for 25 years, from 1917 to 1942.

When the historic split in the Congress took place in 1969, he cast his lot with Indira Gandhi and became the interim president of the faction she headed.

He became close to then prime minister Indira Gandhi's son Sanjay Gandhi.

He spent some time at Sevagram ashram of Mahatma Gandhi, and became a follower of Gandhism for the rest of his life.

Rahul Gandhi was born in Delhi on 19 June 1970 as the first of the two children of Rajiv Gandhi, who later became the Prime Minister of India and Sonia Gandhi, who later became President of Indian National Congress, and as the grandson of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Each civilization is led by a famous historical figure, such as Mahatma Gandhi for Indians.

Rajiv Gandhi was born into India's most famous political family.

Another famous visitor was Mahatma Gandhi, who came to the city

The Reading Room was used by a large number of famous figures, including notably Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde, Friedrich Hayek, Bram Stoker, Mahatma Gandhi, Rudyard Kipling, George Orwell, George Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, Lenin, Norbert Elias, Virginia Woolf, Arthur Rimbaud and H. G. Wells.

It has been regularly used for political rallies — famous speakers have included Mahatma Gandhi and Winston Churchill.

It generated speculation that the presence of a young member of India's most famous political family would reinvigorate the Congress party's political fortunes among India's youthful population In his first interview with foreign media, Gandhi portrayed himself as a uniter of the country and condemned " divisive " politics in India, saying that he would try to reduce caste and religious tensions.

It depicts eight famous faces associated with the town, including Mohandas Gandhi, who visited nearby Darwen in 1931.

While Rakesh was in space, he was asked by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on a famous conversation, who asked him how does India look from space, Rakesh replied " Saare Jahan se Achcha Hindustan Hamara " meaning ' ur land of Hindustan, is the Best in the world '.

Kingsley Hall is famous both for the visits of Mahatma Gandhi to the East End in 1931 and the therapeutic clinic run by the alternative psychologist R. D. Laing from 1965.

A poet and writer, he was a close friend of Walt Whitman and Rabindranath Tagore, corresponding with many famous figures such as Annie Besant, Isadora Duncan, Havelock Ellis, Roger Fry, Mahatma Gandhi, James Keir Hardie, J. K. Kinney, Jack London, George Merrill, E D Morel, William Morris, E R Pease, John Ruskin, and Olive Schreiner.

PNB has had the privilege of maintaining accounts of national leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi, Shri Jawahar Lal Nehru, Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri, Shrimati Indira Gandhi, as well as the account of the famous Jalianwala Bagh Committee.

The ships of the rescue service are named after people famous for their humanitarian efforts, such as Elsa Brändström, Florence Nightingale, Henri Dunant, Albert Schweitzer, Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore.

In the books, prot notes that Jane Goodall, John Lennon, Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer are among the most K-PAXian ( famous ) humans on Earth.

The Shivaji Park Residential area, a predominantly upper middle class residential zone, has also become a highly sought after residential area in South Mumbai because of its proximity to the Dadar Chowpatty, Shivaji Park, Mahatma Gandhi Olympic Swimming Pool and the famous Siddhivinayak temple in Prabhadevi.

The most famous local is Sonia Gandhi, who was raised here, although she was actually born in Lusiana, near Vicenza.

There is also a bandstand, a statue of Mahatma Gandhi and the famous " last train " engine-the last train that was run in Trinidad.

The famous markets here are: Anaj mandi, Bindawala Chawk, Sabzi Mandi ( town's biggest and main Vegetable Market ), subhash road, Shaheed Dataram marg, Gandhi Road, ( this road dividing Khurja into its east and west parts is considered to be the main market of the town which also links the town to its main localities ), Raniwala Chawk, Jewar Adda, Moodha-Kheda, Bajaja Bazar ( town's biggest textile market ), Nayi Basti, Shaheed Dataram Chowk, Bus Adda ( Bus Terminus ) etc.

Sabarmati Ashram ( also known as Gandhi Ashram, Harijan Ashram, or Satyagraha Ashram ) is located in the Sabarmati suburb of Ahmedabad adjoining to famous Ashram Road, at the bank of River Sabarmati, 4 miles from the town hall.

Renowned sculptress of famous people including Lenin, Trotsky, Churchill and Gandhi, journalist, traveller, romantic adventurer and celebrity.

Many famous guests have stayed there, including Queen Elizabeth II ( four times ) and the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen Mother, Prince Charles, Fidel Castro, who was the first head of state to visit the hotel, Charles de Gaulle, and Princess Grace of Monaco, during Expo ' 67, Indira Gandhi, Jacques Chirac, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Perry Como, Joan Crawford, John Travolta, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and George W. Bush.

Some of the famous freedom fighters include Bhikaji Cama, Dr. Annie Besant, Pritilata Waddedar, Vijayalakshmi Pandit, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Aruna Asaf Ali, Sucheta Kriplani and Kasturba Gandhi.

In order to attract more Muslim support to the National Movement, Mahatma Gandhi and the national leaders of India supported the Khilafat movement and merged it to the famous Non Co-operation Movement ; This succeeded in bringing almost all sections of Indians under one flag for a Pan-Indian movement for the first time. The southern Malabar district welcomed this movement in a great spirit.

The puthalath koroth in Mahe earns fame as the centre of famous puthalath thira and the association with leaders including Mahatma Gandhi.