Indira Gandhi - Anita

• Indira Gandhi was born 19, 1917 in Allahabad to Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India. She was later on considered a famous female politician and was third prime minister of India. She was the only child born to her parents because her younger brother died in infancy. Indira Gandhi attended Oxford University later on in her life.
• After she finished collage, Indira Gandhi joined the National Congress and took part in India's independence movement. In 1942, she married Feroze Gandhi, a lawyer also participating in the National Indian Congress. A year later, both of them were arrested by the British Parliament due to subversion.
• When India won its independence in 1947, Nehru took office as prime minster and made Indira Gandhi his official hostess, after her mother had died. She also helped him with national problems and served as his ambassador to other countries. 
• In 1955 was elected body of the congress and then in 1959, she became the president of the party. After her father's death, Indira Gandhi was appointed minister of information and broadcasting. After her father's successor's, India's congress appointed her to the post of prime minister. She was a strong leader, improving India's agriculture, helping the poor and making a peace agreement with Pakistan's prime minister.
• Later on, Indira Gandhi realized that corruption was going on in the congress. After her discovery, the high court charged her guilty because of a infraction during the election and forced her to resign. Gandhi lost the next election and was imprisoned. After she got out of the prison in the 1980s, a Sikh separatist movement begain, and Indira Gandhi tried to stop it. On October 31, 1984, two of Indira Gandhi's loyal bodyguards shot her. On the way to the hospital, Indira Gandhi died.