30 Facts About Sanjay Gandhi

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Sanjay Gandhi was an Indian politician and the younger son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze 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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Sanjay Gandhi was very interested in sports cars, and obtained a pilot's licence in 1976.

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Sanjay Gandhi was interested in aircraft acrobatics and won several prizes in that sport.

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In 1971, Prime Minister Indira Sanjay Gandhi's cabinet proposed the production of a "People's car": an efficient indigenous car that middle-class Indians could afford.

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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.

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8.

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, delayed elections, censored the press and suspended some constitutional freedoms in the name of national security.

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Sanjay Gandhi declared his own much shorter five points program 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 sterilization program 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 However, the Janata government's Home Minister, Charan Singh, ordered her and Sanjay 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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Sanjay Gandhi died instantly from head wounds in an air crash at 8:10 am on 23 June 1980, near Safdarjung Airport in New Delhi.

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Sanjay Gandhi was flying a new aircraft of the Delhi Flying Club, and, while performing an aerobatic manoeuvre over his office, lost control and crashed.

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26.

Sanjay Gandhi was a novice pilot but given to flashy daredevilry and dangerous low-flying.

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Sanjay Gandhi's brother had repeatedly warned Gandhi to wear proper shoes and not Kolhapuri chappals in the cockpit but Gandhi chose to ignore his advice.

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Sanjay Gandhi was clad in kurta-pajama and Kolhapuri chappal when he got into the advanced Pitts S-2A aircraft.

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The death of Sanjay Gandhi impacted the political face of India.

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Sanjay Gandhi's death led his mother to induct her other son Rajiv into politics.