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She was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, and the mother of Rajiv Gandhi, who succeeded her in office as the country's sixth prime minister. Gandhi's cumulative tenure of 15 years and 350 days makes her the second-longest-serving Indian prime minister after her father.
The prime minister is appointed by the president of India; however, the prime minister has to enjoy the confidence of the majority of Lok Sabha members, who are directly elected every five years, unless a prime minister resigns. The prime minister is the presiding member of the Council of Ministers of the Union government. The prime minister ...
Prime Minister Gandhi may refer to: Indira Gandhi, 3rd Prime Minister of India between 1966–1977 and 1980–1984; Rajiv Gandhi, 6th Prime Minister of India from ...
Her successors Rajiv Gandhi and P. V. Narasimha Rao also continued that practice. Nonetheless, in 2004, when the Congress was voted back into power, Manmohan Singh became the first and only prime minister not to be the president of the party since establishment of the practice of the president holding both positions. [10]
Rajiv Gandhi [1] (/ ˈ r ɑː dʒ iː v ˈ ɡ ɑː n d iː / ⓘ; Hindi pronunciation: [ɾaːd͡ʒiːʋ gaːn̪d̪ʱiː]; 20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) [2] [3] was an Indian politician who was the prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989.
India’s top court on Friday temporarily halted the criminal defamation conviction of opposition leader Rahul Gandhi for mocking the prime minister’s surname. A fierce critic of Prime Minister ...
In Britain, Winston Churchill, a prominent Conservative politician who was then out of office but later became its prime minister, became a vigorous and articulate critic of Gandhi and opponent of his long-term plans. Churchill often ridiculed Gandhi, saying in a widely reported 1931 speech:
Indira Gandhi, also the first and so far the only woman Prime Minister of India, served the second-longest term as a prime minister. [353] Rajiv Gandhi served from 1984 to 1989. He took office on the day of the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 after the Sikh riots and at age 40 was the youngest PM of India.