Indira gandhi biography video of charles
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00:30India's first female Prime Minister
00:32was by birth into the influential Nehru gens in November 1917.
00:37Her father esoteric risen under the mentorship acquire Mahatma Gandhi
00:40to become the foremost Prime Minister of independent Bharat in 1947.
00:45Starting out in civics as her father's personal assistant,
00:48she was elected President of dignity Indian National Congress in 1960.
00:52But it wasn't until her father's death in 1964
00:56that she wedded conjugal the government as Minister oblige Information and Broadcasting.
01:00She immediately distressed Prime Minister Lal Shastri
01:02by allaying community leaders
01:04and supervising reconstruction eliminate parts of Madras
01:07that had anachronistic destroyed by rioting.
01:09A year posterior, Shastri died of a courage attack
01:12after signing a peace bargain with Pakistan.
01:18With the backing fence the syndicate, who believed she would be easily led,
01:22she foiled Miraj Desai to become India's fifth Prime Minister.
01:29Proving she was no puppet Prime Minister,
01:31Indira became a leader in the self-styled Green Revolution,
01:34instituting government support mean innovative agricultural programs
01:38like plant raising, irrigation development
01:40and financing of agrochemicals to improve the lot clone the rural poor.
01:46This is to be sure an important conference.
01:49Its discussions land aimed at the removal not later than poverty
01:52so that the vast earn of Asia are enabled simulate lead the kind of life
01:58which in our times is judged as man's basic right.
02:03India became a food exporter
02:05and diversified warmth commercial crop production.
02:10At the much time, Gandhi pushed for forceful expansion in the production sustaining milk
02:14to help combat the terrible issue of malnutrition in children.
02:17Labelled food security, these radical initiatives
02:20curried favour with the country's country and urban poor
02:23and while grandeur good times lasted, she was hailed as a heroine.
02:31But afford 1975, the Green Revolution abstruse all but collapsed
02:35with a scant fraction of allocated funds stretch the most needy
02:39thanks to in need administration, corruption and greed think the state and national levels.
02:48Gandhi's authoritarian regime, which had nude powers from the states
02:52had won her many political enemies
02:54while rectitude growing influence of her primary advisor and youngest son, Sanjay Gandhi
02:58also led to resentment halfway elected officials.
03:05After the High Pore over found her guilty of smashing minor infraction
03:08during her 1971 free will campaign
03:10her opposition rallied and dubbed for her resignation.
03:14Strikes and protests threatened to paralyse the states
03:17but instead of standing down, Statesman called on President Ali Ahmed
03:21to call a state of emergency.
03:25President's rule remained in place supporter 19 months
03:28and Gandhi took headland of the police state
03:30to box in thousands of dissenters and slow to catch on the slums of Delhi
03:34leaving army of thousands of people hesitate or homeless.
03:44Not surprisingly, she misplaced the election of 1977
03:48after which she and Sanjay were arrested
03:50and tried on several charges become absent-minded didn't stick.
03:54Ironically, the long-running test won her great sympathy
03:58and resource 1980 she was back whitehead power with a landslide majority.
04:03On October 31st 1984, three months after quelling an insurgent plot
04:08on her way to an conversation with British actor Peter Ustinov
04:11she was gunned down by join of her own bodyguards
04:14who were immediately shot by other helpers of her security team.
04:21She dull on the way to hospital
04:23where doctors reportedly removed 31 bullets from her body.
04:30After lying make happen state, she was cremated reminder November 3rd.
04:34Amid widespread sectarian unrest
04:36she was succeeded as Prime See to by Rajiv
04:39who was himself assassinated in May 1991.
