Feroze khan indira gandhi biography
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The issue had come up at breakfast table at Teen Murti, and there had been quite a row between Indira and Feroze, with Nehru looking on very distressed. Ferozes mothers family name was Ghandy, often associated with Parsis and this was changed to Gandhi, sometime before his wedding with Indira, via an affidavit. Except for one important fact.
She was against a federal India. I cannot write much in a letter but you would be surprised that some of the ministers whom we had considered the most anti-Communist are now supporting the Communist government of Kerala.
As a result of their blindness, they committed the big mistake a couple of years later of making her the prime minister of India.
Earlier governments in Kerala had promised land reforms, but it was the Communist government that decided on implementing them.
But it could never have been done had the Central Government not been willing. A brilliant parliamentarian, he is often called as the ‘conscience keeper’ of the government of his time.
Decades ago, on September 12, 1912, he was born as Feroze Jehangir Ghandy. The central government used this unrest as a reason to dismiss the government.
Feroze married Indira on 26 March1942 at Anand Bhawan, the Nehrus' home.
In 1998, I had the opportunity in London to talk with Mary Shelvankar, who was a good friend of Indira Gandhi. I can’t take that.” And she had walked out of the room in rage.’”
On September 8, 1960, Feroze Gandhi died of a heart attack.
He could have very well been the nucleus of the coterie of Pandit Nehru but chose to become the face of a faceless opposition from his humble residence at Jantar Mantar Lane. His emphasis was that we are not forming a pattern to determine the desirability or otherwise of the President’s Rule in any given situation.
He died of heart failure in 1960.
He abandoned his studies in 1930 to join the struggle for Indian independence. Then Finance Minister T T Krishnamachari had to resign as a consequence of Feroze’s campaign.
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Three years before that, he had exposed the financial manipulations by what was known as the Dalmia-Jain or DJ Group.
He did not see the writing on the wall and committed his life’s political mistake to prefer her to Morarji Desai, something he later came to regret. It was Nehru who deserted his democratic principles, which were reduced to lip service. The agitation in Kerala may have been fuelled by the reforms the CPI government went for, but even before the agitation in Kerala against the Communist rule was in full swing, Indira Gandhi grasped the opportunity.
When I mentioned the Kerala incident and the struggle between Feroze and Indira over her behaviour, Mary Shelvankar said: ‘Feroze and Indira were nationalists and socialists, but when it came to democracy their differences were almost total. He was born Feroze Khan, but changed his name to Feroze Gandhi before marrying Indira Nehru (later Indira Gandhi), the daughter of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
Has it fallen so low that we are going to be dictated [to] by communal elements, by leaders of caste and by those who can enthuse religious feelings into people and create situations where we get caught?