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It was on this day on October 31, 1984 that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her own two Sikh bodyguards apparently in revenge for her ‘ Operation Blue Star’ to flush out militants from the Golden temple in Amritsar .
Today the nation remembers the ‘Iron Lady’ on her 35th death anniversary .
Taking to twitter Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid his rich tributes to the former Prime Minister
देश की पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री श्रीमती इंदिरा गांधी को उनकी पुण्यतिथि पर विनम्र श्रद्धांजलि।
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 31, 2019
She was the first and, to date, the only female Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India. 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.
As Prime Minister, Gandhi was known for her political intransigency and unprecedented centralisation of power. She went to war with Pakistan in support of the independence movement and war of independence in East Pakistan, which resulted in an Indian victory and the creation of Bangladesh. Citing separatist tendencies and in response to a call for revolution, Gandhi instituted a state of emergency from 1975 to 1977 where basic civil liberties were suspended and the press was censored.
In 1980, she returned to power after free and fair elections. After Gandhi ordered military action in the Golden Temple in Operation Blue Star, she was assassinated by her own bodyguards on 31st October , 1984.
