Indira Gandhi,,& of Pakistan ,re-elected assasinate1984

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Indira Gandhi was the Indian Prime Minister from 1966 till 1977, and again from 1980 to her assassination. She was the only woman to become P,M. She was the daughter of Jawarlal Nehru who died in 1964. She was the Minister of Information and Broadcasting in Lal Bahadur Shastri's Govt. She inflicted a crushing defeat on Pakistan in 1971, and imposed a 'state of emergency' on her own country in1975. This led to her defeat in the polls. She was re-elected in 1980 but was assassinated by her bodyguards on 31 Oct1984 Born educated at Oxford till 1941.

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