P250 BEEBFAX 122 Thu 31 Dec --:--/--                                   Indira Gandhi   (19 November 1917 31 October 1984)  was the third Prime  Minister of India and a central figure  of the Indian National Congress party.  Gandhi, who served from 1966 to 1977  and then again from 1980 until her  assassination in 1984, is the  second-longest-serving Prime Minister  of India and the only woman to hold  the office.    Indira Gandhi was the only child of  Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal  Nehru. She served as the Chief of  Staff of her father's highly  centralised administration between  1947 and 1964 and came to wield   Next       Prev       Home        End