Congress leader Jairam Ramesh recalled the former prime minister’s “unusual patience, courage, tenacity and resilience” on the 41st anniversary of Indira Gandhi’s assassination, recalling his visit to Belchhi in Bihar in 1977. “Today, the nation remembers the indomitable Indira Gandhi and pays tribute to her on her 41st martyrdom anniversary.

She was a person of extraordinary fortitude, courage,” Ramesh said in a post on X. Perseverance, and resilience.

” He described how on a rainy day on August 13, 1977, Gandhiji traveled through difficult terrain to meet families devastated by caste atrocities – “first by car, jeep and tractor and then on horseback to the remote village of Belchhi”. Calling it an “extraordinary and spontaneous outreach”, Ramesh wrote that the visit “marked his political resurgence. ” Earlier that year, One of Bihar’s worst caste massacres took place at Belchhi in Nalanda district, and Gandhi’s visit to console the Dalit victims was widely seen as a turning point, rekindling his rapport with the masses after his election defeat in 1977.

A day later, Gandhi met his “most bitter political critic and adversary, Jayaprakash Narayan, in Patna,” Ramesh said. He also shared archival images of Gandhi riding on an elephant.

There are muddy fields to reach the shovel. Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge, paid floral tributes to the former prime minister at the Shakti Sthal in Delhi. “India’s Indira – remained fearless, steadfast and steadfast in the face of every power,” Rahul Gandhi wrote on Instagram October 31, 1980 Until his assassination in 1984.

He was born on 19 November 1917.