Indira Gandhi's father was Jawaharlal Nehru and her mother was Kamla Nehru.

When the struggle of resistance matured in November 1971, India also intervened militarily and may have helped bring international attention to the issue through Indira Gandhi's visit to Washington, D. C.

He entered politics at Indira Gandhi's request and won three successive general elections to the Lok Sabha and served as a Minister of State in the Union Cabinet under former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

For a time Saleem is held as a political prisoner ; these passages contain scathing criticisms of Indira Gandhi's overreach during the Emergency as well as a personal lust for power bordering on godhood.

In 1984 Indira Gandhi brought an action against the book in the British courts, claiming to have been defamed by a single sentence in chapter 28, penultimate paragraph, in which her son Sanjay Gandhi is said to have had a hold over his mother by him accusing her of contributing to his father's Feroze Gandhi's death through her neglect.

Indira Gandhi's Congress ( I ) party supported Bhindranwale in a bid to split the Sikh votes and weaken the Akali Dal, its chief rival in Punjab.

The accord recognised the religious, territorial and economic demands of the Sikhs that were thought to be non-negotiable under Indira Gandhi's tenure.

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

Due to the security threats faced by Indira Gandhi's family from Sikh extremists, Rahul Gandhi and his sister, Priyanka were home-schooled thereafter.

He also opened high level diplomatic relations with Israel, which Indira Gandhi's government which took office following the 1980 elections curtailed.

This Progressive Democratic Front government was dismissed in February 1980, following Indira Gandhi's return to power at the Centre.

Assassination of Indira Gandhi: Indira Gandhi's blood-stained saree and her belongings at the time of her assassination, preserved at the Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum in New Delhi.

It is Indira Gandhi's business and not mine, nor Longowal's, nor of any other of our leaders.

* March-The first non-Congress government sweeps to power following Indira Gandhi's defeat at the general elections.

On June 26, 1975, the President of India, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, accepted Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's recommendation to declare a state of national emergency.

The Desai government proceeded to establish inquiry commissions and tribunals to investigate allegations of corruption and human rights abuses by members of Indira Gandhi's government, political party and the police forces.

The Congress Party, led by Indira Gandhi, suffered a defeat at the hands of the Janata Party, a coalition created in 1977 out of several small parties that opposed Gandhi's Emergency era.

During his union ministership, he clashed with American multinationals like IBM and Coca Cola insisting them to implement FERA, the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, which had been passed under Indira Gandhi's government.

In 1971, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Cabinet proposed the production of a " People's car "— an efficient indigenous automobile that middle-class Indians could afford.

Indira Gandhi's government, rather than taking this as a political challenge, resorted to declaring a national emergency and imprisoning the opposition party leaders, including all dissenting voices from the media.

" But two tough, prominent publishers of English language dailies, The Indian Express and The Statesman, fought courageously against Indira Gandhi's opposition of the Indian press.

Like other dictators in history, Indira Gandhi's first attempt was to impose " thought control " on the populace.

The Indira Awaas Yojana, a central government low-cost housing programme for the rural poor, is named after her.

Indira herself was at loggerheads with her father over policy ; most notably, she used his oft-stated personal deference to the Congress Working Committee to push through the dismissal of the Communist Party of India government in the state of Kerala, over his own objections.

* The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The BJP was a strong critic of the Congress government, and while it opposed the Sikh militancy that was rising in the state of Punjab, it also blamed Indira Gandhi for divisive and corrupt politics that fostered the militancy at national expense.

The pro-Khalistan activists have alleged that the Indira Gandhi government had been preparing for an attack on their shrine for over a year.

The Congress Party Official leadership led by Kamraj chose to support Neelam Sanjiva Reddy for the position, but he was able to prevail anyway being the chosen candidate for Indira Gandhi who controlled the government, serving until 1974.

Dr. Sam Nujoma had received Indira Gandhi Prize from government of India in 1990.

The period of emergency ( 1975 – 1977 ), declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was the brief period when India's media was faced with potential government retribution.

Reyat also discussed explosives with a co-worker while expressing anger at the Indian government and Indira Gandhi in particular.

However, the internal stresses of the coalition's government caused him to leave the government with the former Lok Dal, after being promised by Indira Gandhi the support of the Congress Party on the floor of the House in any efforts to form a government.

Pawar broke away from the Congress to form a coalition government with the opposition Janata Sangh in 1978 becoming the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for the first time at a time when Indira Gandhi had become incredibly unpopular due to her imposition of Emergency in 1975.

After returning to power, the new Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, dismissed a number of state governments belonging to the opposition parties, including the AIADMK government.

The Janata Party ( People's Party ) was an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the State of Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her party, the Indian National Congress ( R ).

Raj Narain, a leader of the Socialist Party of India, who had unsuccessfully contested election against Indira from the constituency of Rae Bareilly in 1971, lodged a case at the Allahabad High Court, alleging electoral malpractices and the use of government resources for her election campaign.

Indira Gandhi was believed to be under the influence of a clique of politicians led by her youngest son, Sanjay Gandhi, who had become notorious for using his influence in the government and the Congress ( R ) for alleged corrupt activities.

Indira and her Congress ( R ) promoted the record of achieving economic development and orderly government.

Singh had become widely popular for exposing the role of the government of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the eldest son and successor of Indira, in the Bofors scandal.

They aimed at blowing up toilets in government offices and cause explosions near the venue of public meetings to be addressed by Indira Gandhi.

India under Indira Gandhi fully supported the cause of the East Pakistanis and its troops and equipment were used to fight the Pakistani forces.

The issue was resolved during the premiership of Lal Bahadur Shastri, who under great pressure from Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, was made to give assurances that English would continue to be used as the official language as long the non-Hindi speaking states wanted.

To calm the situation, Shastri took the advice of Indira Gandhi and gave assurances that English would continue to be used as the official language as long the non-Hindi speaking states wanted.

On 12 June 1975, the Allahabad High Court gave a verdict that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi used unfair means in elections of 1971 and termed her election null and void.

They used to meet and discuss on what could be done to topple the autocratic Indira Gandhi Government.

In India, necklacing has been used in communal riots, most notably in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots which followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi.

Later, on 1 September 1958, Nehru, his daughter Indira Gandhi, and Palden Thondup Namgyal ( son of — and internal affairs adviser to — Tashi Namgyal, the Chogyal of Sikkim ) used this pass to travel to nearby Bhutan.