Rahul Gandhi, Manmohan Singh pay tribute to Indira Gandhi on her 33rd death anniversary

New Delhi: Former president Pranab Mukherjee, former prime minister Manmohan Singh and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday paid tributes to former prime minister Indira Gandhi on her 33rd death anniversary. They paid floral tributes to the late prime minister at Shakti Sthal. “We pay tribute to a dynamic leader; India’s first and only female prime minister and 1999’s ‘Woman of the Millennium’, Indira Gandhi,” the Congress party said in a series of tweets.

We pay tribute to a dynamic leader; India's first & only female PM & 1999's 'Woman of the Millennium', Indira Gandhi. #RememberingIndiraji pic.twitter.com/KpxikO3tgu

— Congress (@INCIndia) October 31, 2017

They posted a picture of their leader and her message “Martyrdom does not end something, it is only a beginning”. “Remembering Indiraji and her immense passion for India and its people. She was a leader whose conviction remains unparalleled,” the party said.

#RememberingIndiraji and her immense passion for India and its people.
She was a leader whose conviction remains unparalleled. pic.twitter.com/MhYgMMYCdx

— Congress (@INCIndia) October 31, 2017

It quoted Indira Gandhi’s own words posting with the tweet that read, “If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting. I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.” She was the daughter of the first prime minister late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Born on 19 November, 1917, Indira Gandhi was assassinated on 31 October, 1984, by her bodyguards. The assassination came a few months after she ordered the storming of the Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar in the “Operation Blue Star” to counter the Punjab insurgency. She held office from January 1966 to March 1977, and again from 14 January, 1980 till her death.