Indira Gandhi was a Legend.
Her full name was Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi. She was born on 19 Nov 1917 and became the Third Prime Minister of India. She was elected four terms as Prime Minister from 1966–77 and again from 1980 until her assassination in the Year 1984. She was voted the greatest Indian Prime Minister in a poll organised by India Today In 2001. In the year 1999 She also came first in the "Woman of the Millennium" poll organised by the BBC.She was Assassinated on 31 October 1984, by two of her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, who shot her with their service weapons in the garden of the Prime Minister's residence at 1 Safdarjung Road, New Delhi. They shot her when she was walking past a wicket gate guarded by Satwant and Beant. Beant Singh shot her three times using his side-arm and Satwant Singh fired 30 rounds. Gandhi was cremated on 3 November near Raj Ghat. The site where she was cremated is today known as Shakti Sthala.
In the memory of such a great woman RBI had Released the Following coin:
5 RUPEE COIN 1917-1984
Metal: Cupronickel
Weight: 5 gms
Diameter: 24 mmSHAPE-Circular
OBVERSE:
1. Ashoka Lion Capital
2. Denomination 5 Rupees below
REVERSE :
1. Indira Gandhi
2. Dated 1917-1984
Her full name was Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi. She was born on 19 Nov 1917 and became the Third Prime Minister of India. She was elected four terms as Prime Minister from 1966–77 and again from 1980 until her assassination in the Year 1984. She was voted the greatest Indian Prime Minister in a poll organised by India Today In 2001. In the year 1999 She also came first in the "Woman of the Millennium" poll organised by the BBC.She was Assassinated on 31 October 1984, by two of her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, who shot her with their service weapons in the garden of the Prime Minister's residence at 1 Safdarjung Road, New Delhi. They shot her when she was walking past a wicket gate guarded by Satwant and Beant. Beant Singh shot her three times using his side-arm and Satwant Singh fired 30 rounds. Gandhi was cremated on 3 November near Raj Ghat. The site where she was cremated is today known as Shakti Sthala.
In the memory of such a great woman RBI had Released the Following coin:
5 RUPEE COIN 1917-1984
Metal: Cupronickel
Weight: 5 gms
Diameter: 24 mmSHAPE-Circular
OBVERSE:
1. Ashoka Lion Capital
2. Denomination 5 Rupees below
REVERSE :
1. Indira Gandhi
2. Dated 1917-1984
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