Failure to realize such divided loyalties led to the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards in 1984.

Similarly, the Indira Gandhi National Open University in India combines the use of print, recorded audio and video, broadcast radio and television, and audio conferencing technologies.

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

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The INC was out of power between 1977 and 1980, when the Janata Party won the election due to public discontent with the corruption ( promulgation of Emergency with stringent forces ) of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

This rule was interrupted between 1977 to 1980, when the Janata Party coalition won the election owing to public discontent with the controversial state of emergency declared by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi ( Indirā Priyadarśinī Gāndhī, née Nehru ; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984 ) was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms ( 1966 – 77 ) and a fourth term ( 1980 – 84 ).

Indira Gandhi is associated with fostering a culture of nepotism in Indian politics and in India's institutions.

The international airport at New Delhi is named Indira Gandhi International Airport in her honour.

The Indira Gandhi National Open University, the largest university in the world, is also named after her.

* Pupul Jayakar, Indira Gandhi: An Intimate Biography ( 1992 ) ISBN 978-0-679-42479-6

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* Inder Malhotra, Indira Gandhi: A personal and political biography ( 1991 ) ISBN 0-340-53548-2

* Indira Gandhi – Iron Lady of India by Dr Sulakshi Thelikorala

* Rare pictures of Indira Gandhi

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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.

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 ).

Rajiv Gandhi was in West Bengal when his mother, Indira Gandhi was assassinated on 31 October 1984 by two of her Sikh bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, to avenge the military attack on the Harmandir Sahib ( Sikhism's holiest shrine, also called " The Golden Temple ") during Operation Blue Star.

India also withdrew its military from the land of Bangladesh when Sheikh Mujibur Rahman requested Indira Gandhi to do so during latter's visit to Dhaka in 1972.

The party was in the forefront during the agitation against the emergency ( 1975 – 77 ) imposed by the Indira Gandhi regime and thousands of its leaders and workers were imprisoned across India.

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.

However Jayakar considers his message in meetings with Indira Gandhi as a possible influence in the lifting of certain emergency measures Mrs. Gandhi had imposed during periods of political turmoil.

Sukarno at Borobudur with Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi during their visit to Indonesia

Queen Elizabeth II, Indira Gandhi, and Pierre Elliot Trudeau were among those who attended performances at the Shaw Festival Theatre during its inaugural season in 1973.

* 31 October-3 November An estimated 2, 700-10, 000 Sikhs killed during the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi and other areas ; mobs loot and damage several Sikh homes, businesses and Gurdwaras in response to the assassination of Indira Gandhi

* 26 June-A state of emergency is declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during which the press is censored and 100, 000 are jailed.

Although she offered apologies for abuses committed during the Emergency, Indira and the Congress ( R ) defended the rationale 455

" Indira Gandhi apologised for mistakes made during the Emergency and won the endorsement of respected national leaders such as Vinoba Bhave.

Fernandes went underground during the Emergency era ( 1975 ), as he took on Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for imposing a state of emergency, but was arrested in 1976, and tried in the infamous Baroda dynamite case.

Despite some bold fights and stubborn stands taken up by these publishers, its was quite clear that Indira Gandhi had as strong a grip on the Indian press as she had on Indian politics, at least during the government-imposed emergency.

It has now become a well-known fact that during the emergency Indira Gandhi had a firm grip on the Indian mass media.

Democratic Indira Congress ( Karunakaran ) played a significant role in Kerala politics during its brief history.

His closeness to the Nehru family begins from Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and culminated and pinnacled during the tenure of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.

Jacob Copeman, a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, states in his article “ Blood Will Have Blood: A Study in Indian Political Ritual ,” that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi are the two politicians who are mainly “ remembered ” during the blood donations ( 131 ).

However, this convention has been breached on a number of occasions, most notably during the premiership of Indira Gandhi, when A. N.

Niren De during Indira Gandhi replied to a question by Hans Raj Khanna stating that even the right to life can be suspended during emergency.

As a public figure, Singh has been accused of favoring the ruling Congress party, especially during the reign of Indira Gandhi.

Congress ( A ) was a political party founded by Antony when he split from the Indian National Congress ( Urs ) a splinter group of the Indian National Congress ( and opposed Indira Gandhi in inner party politics during the time when she was prosecuted by the Morarji Desai government, splitting off from the parent party with Devraj Urs.

In January 1977 however, during the emergency declared controversially by Indira Gandhi, the government decided to suspend even the Right to Life and Personal Liberty by dispensing with Habeas corpus.