The nation Saturday remembered former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 94th Birth Anniversary of President Pratibha Patil and Vice President Hamid Ansari with prominent personalities who have paid rich tribute to the leader.
The leaders offered floral tributes to her Memorial Shakti Sthal on the banks of Yamuna.The nation Saturday commemorate former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 94th Birth Anniversary of President Pratibha Patil and Vice President Hamid Ansari with prominent personalities who have paid rich tribute to the leader.
Besides Patil and Ansari, UPA leader Sonia Gandhi, Congress secretary Rahul Gandhi, Union ministers Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kamal Nath, Sushil Kumar Shinde and Krishna Tirath and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia were among those who visited the memorial.
Gandhi, born on 19 November 1917 in the politically influential Nehru family, was the first female prime minister of India. Her father Jawaharlal Nehru was a central figure in the Indian independence movement and first Prime Minister of independent India.
After Nehru’s death in 1964, she became a Rajya Sabha member and joined the Lal Bahadur Shastri cabinet as Minister for Information and Broadcasting.
She held three consecutive terms as prime minister from 1966 to 1977. The Congress leader was assassinated on 31 October 1984.
