pictory: India's PM Indira Gandhi State Visit to Iran

pictory: India's PM Indira Gandhi State Visit to Iran
by Darius Kadivar
30-Nov-2008
 

State Visit to Iran of Indira Gandhi Prime Minister of the Republic of India greeted by Iran's Royal Couple at Mehrabad Airport. Late 1960's Tehran 

Indira Gandhi was Elected PM for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977. She was elected for a fourth term in 1980 and became increasingly involved in an escalating conflict with separatists in Punjab that eventually led to her assassination by her own bodyguards in 1984. 

 

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The veteran Congress party leader Pranab Mukherjee was born in 1935 in West Bengal.

He was a teacher, a journalist and a lawyer before being elected in 1969 to the upper house of parliament. He has served as finance, foreign and defence minister, and has held other influential positions in the government.

He fell out with the Congress leaders in 1986 and started his own party, but returned to the party fold two years later. He has served on the boards of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank