Indira Gandhi Birthday

Indira Gandhi took the command of the country after two border wars with neighbours and one domestic crisis of food security... She took many bold steps i.e. green revolution, nationalisation of banks, direct military intervention in the Eastern Pakistan (Bangladesh), signing a defence and friendship treaty with Soviet Union, Pokharan Nuclear Test.
She was faced political challenges within party and outside from the unity among socialist parties, Bharatiya Jansangh Party and others non-political party as JP movement. Even she did not bend before the US President Richard Nixon... The US and China came closer as the People's Republic China joined the permanent seat of the UNSC. US and its Western alliances boycotted India after Pokharan Nuclear tests in 1974.
Indira Gandhi was one of leaders in the Third World who attended the UNCEHD at Stockholm (Sweden) in 1972. The good initiatives of Indira Gandhi that India became the first among big countries who took some progressive steps (legal provisions) in the direction of preservation, protection and promotion of environment, forest, tiger and pollution.
She introduced national emergency that was her blunder mistake of her political life but it was only option before her to avoid the dangerous political tornado in the leadership of Jaya Prakash Narayan backed by Jansangh, socialist Parties, DMK, anti-Indira Congress leaders (Congress dissidents).
JP Movement was not a pro-revolution and pro-reform political movement but it was aimed only on one-point political agenda of 'removing Indira' (Indira Hathao). This balloon of JP movement (visionless political struggle) was puffed by power hungry and baseless leaders of Jansangha, old and frustrated socialists, irrelevant and opportunist leaders of RSS. And this Jansangha backed JP movement converted into Janata Party and within two years this designed political plot and anti-Indira Gandhi balloon in the name of JP Movement (a movement led by Jaya Prakash Narayan) against Indira Gandhi was punctured.
Indira Gandhi came back into power within three years in 1980 with absolute majority. In her last tenure of Prime Minister, she again took two bold military decisions to suppress the dissident voices and organisations of insurgency in Punjab and Mizoram. In my view, only mistake of Indira Gandhi that was her decision of declaring emergency. She was a strong friend, sister and leader of Third World's socialism from Cuba to Palestine. We can not forget her foresightedness and thoughtful speech on environment and human development in Stockholm Conference in 1972.
Her slogan of poverty elimination and positive steps towards environment in forms of laws and policy that indicate about Indira Gandhi's concern of both environment and human development.