Indira Gandhi

Indira Gandhi was an Indian stateswoman and central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was the first and, to date, the only female Prime Minister of India.

Indira Gandhi belonged to the Nehru–Gandhi family and was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Indian prime minister. Despite her surname Gandhi, she is not related to the family of Mahatma Gandhi.

She served as Prime Minister from January 1966 to March 1977 and again from January 1980 until her assassination in October 1984, making her the second longest-serving Indian prime minister after her father.

Date of birth:
19th November, 1917
Date of death:
31st October, 1984
"Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one."
― Indira Gandhi
Topic(s): Anger
"If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying."
― Indira Gandhi
Topic(s): Death
"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave."
― Indira Gandhi
Topic(s): Forgiveness
"One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money."
― Indira Gandhi
Topic(s): Money
"The power to question is the basis of all human progress."
― Indira Gandhi
Topic(s): Power
"A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others."
― Indira Gandhi
Topic(s): Strength
"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there."
― Indira Gandhi
Topic(s): Work
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
― Indira Gandhi
Topic(s): Work

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