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Sanjay Gandhi

1946 - 1980

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Sanjay Gandhi (14 December 1946 – 23 June 1980) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Lok Sabha and was the younger son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi. During his lifetime, he was widely expected to succeed his mother as head of the Indian National Congress and Prime Minister of India, but following his death in a plane crash, his elder brother Rajiv became their mother's political heir and succeeded her as Prime Minister of India and President of the party after her assassination. His wife Maneka Gandhi and son Varun Gandhi are politicians in the Bharatiya Janata Party. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sanjay Gandhi is the 12,329th most popular politician (down from 9,728th in 2019), the 483rd most popular biography from India (down from 342nd in 2019) and the 159th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sanjay Gandhi ranks 12,329 out of 19,576. Before him are Siegfried Kasche, Romuald Traugutt, Jon Huntsman Jr., Agasicles, John Lee Ka-chiu, and Francisco del Rosario Sánchez. After him are Modibo Keita, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Dora Bakoyannis, Luis Sáenz Peña, Charles de Bonchamps, and Bagyidaw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Sanjay Gandhi ranks 375. Before him are Bernard Maris, Daouda Malam Wanké, Gordon Murray, Davorin Popović, Eliades Ochoa, and Slobodan Santrač. After him are Ognyan Gerdzhikov, Andreas Katsulas, Don Schollander, Stephen P. Synnott, Ricardo Maduro, and Mick Ronson. Among people deceased in 1980, Sanjay Gandhi ranks 158. Before him are Jacqueline Cochran, Torcuato Fernández-Miranda, Arthur Melvin Okun, Andrija Anković, Yakov Malik, and Nihat Erim. After him are Jan Werich, Dorothy Day, Terence Fisher, Boris Delaunay, Jean Robic, and Katherine Anne Porter.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sanjay Gandhi ranks 483 out of 1,861. Before him are Balbir Singh Sr. (1923), Lakshmi Sahgal (1914), Charles Gmelin (1872), Zakir Hussain (1951), Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1921), and Shashi Kapoor (1938). After him are Jai Singh II (1688), N. Chandrababu Naidu (1950), Sonam Kapoor (1985), Jayaprakash Narayan (1902), Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820), and Shibli Nomani (1857).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Sanjay Gandhi ranks 159. Before him are Alamgir II (1699), Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (1892), Skandagupta (500), Bahubali (null), Rani Padmini (null), and Lakshmi Sahgal (1914). After him are N. Chandrababu Naidu (1950), Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820), Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900), Mamata Banerjee (1955), C. N. Annadurai (1909), and Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948).

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