Mangalore, November 19: The Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee remembered former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 94th birth anniversary.
DCC president and Bantwal MLA B Ramanath Rai led the floral tribute to the portrait of the Iron Lady at District Congress Office in the city.
Local Congress KS Mohammad Masood, TK Sudhir and Ibrahim Kodijal were among those present.
Gandhi, born on November 19, 1917 in the politically influential Nehru family, was the first woman Prime Minister of India. Her father Jawaharlal Nehru was a pivotal figure in the Indian independence movement and the first Prime Minister of independent India.
After Nehru's death in 1964, she became a Rajya Sabha member and was inducted in Lal Bahadur Shastri's cabinet as Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
She held three consecutive terms as Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977. The Congress leader was assassinated on October 31, 1984.
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