Indhira Gandhi was born on 19th November in 1917. Her father was Jawaharlal Nehru who was the 1st prime Minister of independent Indian and her mother was Kamala Nehru. She has been interested in politics since she was 12 years old. In 1942 She married a journalist Feroze Gandhi and had two sons Rajiv and Sanjay. After Nehru died in in 1964 she was elected to the parliament in his place.She became the Prime Minister after the death of the Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in in 1966.She served as the Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and against form 1982 to 1984.During this Period, there was a government attack on the Golden temple where a lot of terrorist activities took place.
Many sikh people who were occupying the temple died due to this attack. As a result she was killed in October 1984 by one of her own body guards, who was a sikh.
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