Indira Gandhi
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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindustani: [ˈɪnːdɪrə ˈɡaːnd̪ʱi] ( listen); née Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was the third Prime Minister of India and a central figure of the Indian National Congress party. Gandhi, who served from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, is the second-longest-serving Prime Minister of India and the only woman to hold the office. Indira Gandhi was the only child of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. She served as the Chief of Staff of her father's highly centralised administration between 1947 and 1964 and came to wield considerable unofficial influence in government. Elected Congress President in 1959, she was offered the premiership in succession to her father. Gandhi refused and instead chose to become a cabinet minister in the government. She finally consented to become Prime Minister in succession to Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966.
As Prime Minister, Gandhi was known for her political ruthlessness 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 regional hegemon of South Asia. Gandhi also presided over a state of emergency from 1975 to 1977 during which she ruled by decree and made lasting changes to the constitution of India. She was assassinated in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star.
Operation Blue Star
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Blue_Star
Akal Takht
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akal_Takht
Amritsar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amritsar
Assassination of Indira Gandhi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Indira_Gandhi
Indira Gandhi, the 4th Prime Minister of India, was assassinated at 9:20 AM on 31 October 1984, at her Safdarjung Road, New Delhi residence. She was killed by two of her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star, the Indian army's June 1984 assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar which left the Sikh temple heavily damaged
At about 9:20 AM on 31 October 1984, Indira Gandhi was on her way to be interviewed by British actor Peter Ustinov, who was filming a documentary for Irish television. She was walking through the garden of the Prime Minister's Residence at No. 1, Safdarjung Road in New Delhi towards the neighbouring 1 Akbar Road office.
As she passed a wicket gate guarded by Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, they opened fire. Sub-Inspector Beant Singh fired three rounds into her abdomen from his sidearm. Satwant Singh then fired 30 rounds from his Sten gun into her after she had fallen to the ground. After the shooting, both threw their weapons down and Beant Singh said "I have done what I had to do. You do what you want to do." In the next six minutes Tarsem Singh Jamwal and Ram Saran, soldiers in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, captured and killed Beant Singh in a separate room because Beant Singh allegedly tried to pull a gun on the officers in the room. Satwant Singh was arrested by Gandhi's other bodyguards along with an accomplice trying to escape, and was seriously wounded in the attack initiated by Beant Singh. Satwant Singh was hanged in 1989 with accomplice Kehar Singh.
Salma Sultan gave the first news of assassination of Indira Gandhi on Doordarshan's evening news on 31 October 1984, more than 10 hours after she was shot. It is alleged that R. K. Dhawan, Mrs. Gandhi's secretary, overruled intelligence and security officials who had ordered the removal of Sikh policemen, including her eventual assassins, as a security threat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beant_Singh_(assassin)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satwant_Singh
1984 anti-Sikh riots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_anti-Sikh_riots
The Path of Martyrdom - As she proceeded towards 1, Akbar Road, on the Path of Martyrdom, presently covered by a glass top, she was fired upon by two security personnel on reaching the gate and sentry post.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Indira_Gandhi#mediaviewer/File:PathOfMartyrdom.JPG
Indira Gandhi
https://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Independent/Indira.html
Safdarjung Road
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safdarjung_Road
Manmohan Singh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manmohan_Singh
Manmohan Singh ([mənˈmoːɦən ˈsɪ́ŋɡ] ( listen); born 26 September 1932) is an Indian economist who served as the 14th Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014. The first Sikh in office, Singh was the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term.