India remembers Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her death anniversary
India Monday paid tributes to the nation's first woman Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, who served for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977, and a fourth term from 1980 till her assassination in 1984 by bodyguards.
Indian President Pratibha Patil led the nation in paying floral tributes to the late Prime Minister at her memorial in Shakti Sthal.
Also present on the occasion were Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) Speaker Meira Kumar, ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi and Nehru- Gandhi scion Rahul Gandhi among leaders cutting across party lines.
Gandhi, who was well known for her charismatic authority and political astuteness, was born in 1917.
She was killed on Oct. 31, 1984, when two of her Sikh bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, shot her with their service weapons in the garden of her official residence.
It's the same year when she had launched Operation Blue Star to crush secessionist movement in Punjab and sent troops into the Golden Temple of Amritsar, the holy temple of Sikhs in northern India.
Editor: Xiong Tong
English.news.cn 2011-10-31 15:27:49 FeedbackPrintRSS
NEW DELHI, Oct. 31 (Xinhua)
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