1. Sanjay Gandhi was a member of the Lok Sabha and was the younger son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi.
25 Facts About Sanjay Gandhi
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Sanjay Gandhi was educated at the Ecole D'Humanite, an international boarding school in Switzerland.
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Sanjay Gandhi did not attend university, but took up automotive engineering as a career and underwent an apprenticeship with Rolls-Royce in Crewe, England for three years.
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In 1971, Prime Minister Indira Sanjay Gandhi's cabinet proposed producing an affordable, locally made car for India's middle class.
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In June 1971, a company known as Maruti Motors Limited was incorporated under the Companies Act, and Sanjay Gandhi became its managing director despite having no previous experience, design proposals, or links with any corporation.
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Indira Sanjay Gandhi faced criticism, but the victory over Pakistan in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War shifted public focus.
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Sanjay Gandhi did not produce any vehicles during his lifetime.
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Sanjay Gandhi then contacted Volkswagen AG from West Germany for a possible collaboration, transfer of technology and joint production of the Indian version of the "People's Car", to emulate Volkswagen's worldwide success with the Beetle.
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On 25 June 1975 following an adverse court decision against her, Indira Sanjay Gandhi declared a national emergency, decorated elections, censored the press and suspended some constitutional freedoms for national security purpose.
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Sanjay Gandhi declared his own much shorter five points programme promoting:.
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Later during the emergency Sanjay Gandhi's programme was merged with Indira's 20-point programme to make a combined twenty-five point programme.
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Out of the five points, Sanjay Gandhi is chiefly remembered for the family planning initiative that attracted much notoriety and caused longterm harm to population control in India.
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Gujral is reported to have angrily rebuked Sanjay Gandhi and refused to take orders from an unelected person.
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Sanjay Gandhi stood for his first election to the Indian parliament following the lifting of the Emergency in March 1977.
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However, Sanjay Gandhi won Amethi for the Congress in the next general election held in January 1980.
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In September 1976, Sanjay Gandhi initiated a widespread compulsory sterilisation programme to limit population growth.
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Sanjay Gandhi won a by-election from the Chikmagalur Constituency to the Lok Sabha in November 1978.
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However, the Janata government's Home Minister, Charan Singh, ordered her and Sanjay Gandhi arrested on several charges, none of which would be easy to prove in an Indian court.
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The arrest meant that Indira Sanjay Gandhi was automatically expelled from Parliament.
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The ambitious Union Finance minister, Charan Singh, who as the Union Home Minister during the previous year had ordered arrest of Sanjay Gandhi, took advantage of this and started courting different Congress factions including Congress.
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Charan Singh was appointed prime minister, by President Reddy, after Indira and Sanjay Gandhi promised Singh that Congress would support his government from outside on certain conditions.
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The Congress under Sanjay Gandhi swept to power in January 1980.
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Sanjay Gandhi married Maneka Anand, who was 10 years his junior, in New Delhi on 24 September 1974.
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At 8:10 am on 23 June 1980, Sanjay Gandhi lost control of his aeroplane while performing an aerobatic manoeuvre and crashed.
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Sanjay Gandhi's body was recovered and cremated as per Hindu rituals.