Sanjay Gandhi

Sanjay Gandhi
Sanjay Gandhi 1981 stamp of India
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
18 January 1980 (1980-01-18) – 23 June 1980 (1980-06-23)
Preceded byRavindra Pratap Singh
Succeeded byRajiv Gandhi
ConstituencyAmethi, Uttar Pradesh
Personal details
Born(1946-12-14)14 December 1946[1]
Delhi, British India (present-day New Delhi, Delhi, India)
Died23 June 1980(1980-06-23) (aged 33)
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Cause of deathAircraft accident
Political partyIndian National Congress
Spouse
(m. 1974)
ChildrenVarun Gandhi (son)
Parents
RelativesRajiv Gandhi (brother)
See Nehru–Gandhi family
OccupationPolitician

Sanjay Gandhi (14 December 1946 – 23 June 1980)[1] was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Lok Sabha and was the younger son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi.

During his lifetime, he was widely expected to succeed his mother as head of the Indian National Congress and Prime Minister of India, but following his death in a plane crash, his elder brother Rajiv became their mother's political heir and succeeded her as Prime Minister of India and President of the party after her assassination. His wife Maneka Gandhi and son Varun Gandhi are politicians in the Bharatiya Janata Party.

  1. ^ a b Carol Dommermuth-Costa (2002). Indira Gandhi: Daughter of India. Twenty-First Century Books. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-8225-4963-5.