Indira Gandhi’s 103rd Birth Anniversary.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (November 19, 2020) paid tributes to former prime minister Indira Gandhi on her 103rd birth anniversary.
Indira Gandhi, India`s first and only woman Prime Minister, was born on November 19, 1917 in Uttar Pradesh`s Allahabad, now known as Prayagraj. She was the daughter of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India`s first Prime Minister.
Indira Gandhi served as the prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination.
Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her own bodyguards at her official residence on October 31, 1984, months after she ordered the Operation Bluestar, in which the army entered the Golden Temple in Amritsar, one of the holiest Sikh shrines, to remove separatists hiding inside.
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