From the archives: Indira Gandhi — the empress
India TodayWhen Indira Gandhi became prime minister of India in early 1966, she had nowhere to go but up. The Congress, as an institution, which it still was, also cushioned the inexperience of the prime minister, surrounding her with a heavyweight cabinet in which she was less than an equal and even heavierweight chief ministers and regional satraps who commanded Delhi to listen to them rather than the other way around. His youth could have proved useful for both Mrs Gandhi and her party if it had been directed purely into an appropriate level; but Sanjay was making, and soon unmaking, chief ministers. Mrs Gandhi had in 1971cloaked the fragility of the Congress; 10 years later, not only had the party’s institutions withered but the systems of decision-making, which had controlled the sensitive balance of our nation, had started getting dismantled.
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