Maneka Gandhi founded the news magazine Surya,which later played a key role in promoting the Congress party after its defeat in the 1977 election following the Emergency.
Gandhi also went to court to fight an attempt by the government in power to confiscate her passport, winning a landmark decision on personal liberty in the case of Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India. The court found that “Democracy is based essentially on free debate and open discussion, for that is the only corrective of government action in a democratic setup.”
In 1980, Gandhi gave birth to a son, Feroze, named after his paternal grandfather. Her mother-in-law added the name Varun. Maneka was widowed at just twenty-three years old, with Varun only 100 days old, when her husband died in an air crash
#SanjayGandhi’s death, his mother Indira Gandhi ordered his widow daughter in law #ManekaGandhi out of PM residence.
Maneka was ultimately asked to leave
1, Safdarjung Road, the prime minister’s residence, after a dispute with Indira Maneka “begged for two days to leave because she had nowhere to go and her son Varun Gandhi was running a fever. and small boy “
#IndiraGandhi refused. #RajivGandhi, then an Indian Airlines Piolet was being groomed as her political heir, and daughter-in-law Maneka had no claims to her husband Sanjay Gandhi’s political legacy. So, RaGa should read his family history before lecturing others on patriarchy.
On April 3, 1983, she co-founded the Rashtriya Sanjay Manch with Akbar Ahmad, focusing on youth empowerment and employment. The party won four out of five seats in the Elections in Andhra Pradesh.
At that time Andhra CM,#NTR who came to politics anew helped her, she fought Elections in AP in alliance with
TeluguDesam Party, in 1983
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