Indira Gandhi Birthday, Age, Family & Biography

Indira Gandhi, the third Prime Minister of India, was born on 19th November 1917. She served the nation from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until 1984. She was an Indian politician and till date the only female to hold the position of Prime Minister in India.

Indira Gandhi died on 31-10-1984 in New- Delhi. The assailants had fired 31 bullets at her from two sources, a Sten gun, and a pistol. From which 30 bullets had hit, 23 had passed through her body and 7 were trapped inside her.

She was declared dead at 2:20 PM at AIIMS. Her post-mortem examination was conducted by a team of doctors headed by Dr. T.D. Dogra. He extracted bullets from her body. He established the identity of the weapons and to match each weapon with the bullets. The bullets were matched with respective weapons at CFSL Delhi. Salma Sultan gave the first news of her death on Doordarshan's evening news on 31 October 1984, after 10 hours from her shot. She died two weeks and five days before her 67th birthday.

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She got married to Feroze Gandhi at the age of 25. They had two sons namely Rajiv and Sanjay.