India’s Iron Lady Shot Down in Delhi #வரலாற்றில்இன்று #IndiraGandhi #Assassination On the morning of October 31, 1984, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her own bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, outside her residence at Safdarjung Road, New Delhi. The killing was retribution for Operation Blue Star, which targeted Sikh militants in the Golden Temple earlier that year. Her shocking death triggered a wave of anti-Sikh riots across India, leaving thousands dead and changing

Fifty years ago, in June 1975, India’s then prime minister Indira Gandhi declared a nationwide Emergency. Civil liberties were suspended, opposition leaders jailed and the press censored. In an interview with journalist Paul Saltzman in September 1975, Mrs Gandhi defended her decision to impose the Emergency, claiming it was necessary to safeguard the “country’s unity and integrity”. “I have not taken any powers whatsoever. We are functioning absolutely within the constitution,” she said. Watch