Indira Gandhi is undoubtedly one of the most influential political persona of India. She was a huge central figure of the Indian National Congress party, and to date the only female Prime Minister of India. She was known for her political ruthlessness and unprecedented centralization of power. Although her glorified political affairs and affiliations are very well known to India but as far as her personal life is concerned (which happened to be full of controversies) everything is still under wraps.
Today we will be talking about all the scandalous and shocking revelations ever made about the personal affairs of Indira Gandhi that were necessarily kept as a secret to protect her political image.
1. She was ruled out from Tagore’s ashram because she had an affair with a teacher
Indira Gandhi was admitted to Oxford University but was suspended from there for non-performance. Then she was admitted to Shantiniketan University but again, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore ruled her out for bad conduct. In the book, The Nehru Dynasty it is mentioned that Indira’s first love was with her German teacher at Shantiniketan. Her affair with her German teacher was allegedly the real reason for her being expelled.
2. She changed her name to Maimuna Begum and converted to Islam to marry Feroze Khan
Indira Gandhi fell in love with Feroze Khan, the son of a grocer named Nawab Khan who used to supply wines to Motilal Nehru’s house in Allahabad. The then Governor of Maharashtra, Dr. Shriprakash warned Jawaharlal Nehru, about Indira’s illicit relations with Feroze Khan. Feroze Khan was then in England and was sympathetic towards Indira. Soon enough she changed her religion and became a Muslim woman, She and Feroze Khan got married in a London mosque.
3. Feroze Gandhi who is considered to be a Parsi, was actually a muslim by birth.
Feroze Khan’s mother’s family name was Ghandy. His mother was a Parsi before her marriage to his Muslim father Nawab Khan. As inter-religion marriages were illegal at that time, her mother converted to Islam before her marriage and therefore their son Feroze Khan is a Muslim and not a Parsi by birth.
4. Nehru made Feroze change his surname for Indira’s political carrier
Jawaharlal Nehru did not approve of her daughter’s marriage to Feroze Khan. Afraid that Indira might loose the possibility of becoming the heir to the future Nehru dynasty, it was Nehru who made Feroze khan change his surname into Gandhi. This was done by a renowned lawyer from Allahabad, Sir Sapru, a close associate of Motilal Nehru, by presenting an Affidavit.
5. Her second son Sanjay Gandhi is allegedly from a different man known as Mohammad Yunus
According to the book “The Nehru Dynasty” (ISBN 10:8186092005) by K. N. Rao, Feroze Khan is not the father of her second son known as Sanjay Gandhi. He was actually the son of another Muslim gentleman named Mohammad Yunus whom she had an affair with. After the birth of her fist son Rajiv Gandhi, Indira and Feroze were not divorced but they lived separately. It was interesting that Sanjay Gandhi’s marriage with Menaka took place in Mohammad Yunus’ house in New Delhi. Even In Yunus’ book, “Persons, Passions & Politics” (ISBN-10: 0706910176) one can know that infant Sanjay was circumcised following the Islamic customs.
6. Indira Gandhi had many romantic affairs
The book “The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi” (ISBN: 9780007259304)written by Katherine Frank provides an insight into some of Indira Gandhi’s other love affairs. It is written in the book that Indira’s first love affair was with her German teacher at Shantiniketan. Later she had an alleged affair with her father’s secretary M. O. Mathai, then it was her yoga teacher Dhirendra Brahmachari and at last with the Foreign Minister Dinesh Singh.
7. Indira Gandhi allegedly had a hand in her son Sanjay Gandhi’s death
Apparently, Sanjay Gandhi knew about his real father and used to blackmail his mother, Indira. He often misused the deep emotional control he had over his mother. Sanjay Gandhi’s death was mysterious as it was a new plane that dove to a crash. And it happened because there was no fuel. But the flight register showed that the fuel tank was made full just before the take-off. When the news of his death reached Indira Gandhi, her first question was ‘Where are his keys and his wrist watch?’ Her reaction was absolutely shocking and weird that made her a potential suspect.
8. IndiraIn 1968, as the Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi went to an official visit to Afghanistan. Former Foreign Minister K Natwar Singh accompanied her as an IFS officer in duty. Later in his book “Profile and Letters” (ISBN: 8129102358) he stated that Indira Gandhi visited Babur’s burial place and told him that “Today we have had our brush with history.” Babur was the founder of Mughal rule in India, from which the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty have descended. Gandhi was affianced towards the Mughals
9. Sanjay Gandhi had slapped his mother, Indira six times at a dinner party
Prize-winning journalist Lewis M Simons did a story about Indira Gandhi in the Washington Post.According to the story, an unnamed source claimed that at a private dinner party, Sanjay Gandhi had slapped his mother, Indira Gandhi, six times. This slapping incident allegedly occurred some time prior to the Emergency in 1975. Because of the censorship, no Indian newspaper reported this incident but many other foreign media outlets picked up the story. Simons was ordered to leave the country on five hours notice but he stated that he was not expelled for the slapping story but some other report he did about displeasement of Indian Soldiers with the emergency.
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