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Leadership
Leadership

A nation's future depends on its leaders and their leadership. If a leader of a nation is honest,

hardworking, that nation can make a good progress and development. Instead, if a leader of
the nation is greedy, unpatriotic, dishonest, that nation can be gutted down. So the people of a
nation must choose their leader a great and patriotic. It is our duty to conserve the glory of our

country.

Value - Priyarshini Knowledge Acquisition
Knowledge Acquisition

Pt. Jwaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister

of India. He and his wife Kamala were blessed

with a baby girl on 19th November, 1917 at
Anand Bhawan in Allahabad. The child was

given the name Indira ‘Priyadarshini’ meaning

dear to the sight. She was the only child of
Jawaharlal Nehru. A graduate of Visva Bharati

University, Bengal, she also studied at the

University of Oxford, England. She joined the
Indian National Congress Party and became

active in India’s independence movement. In

1942, she married Feroze Gandhi, a Parsi lawyer
who was also active in the party.

Indira grew up happily in a loving home. She was over intelligent for her age and

observed closely the things happening around her. First and foremost Indira was

an Indian. She liked things which were Indian. Once she refused to accept an
expensive dress from Paris which was presented by a close friend. When the

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