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#IndiraPriyadarshini perpetuated immorality in the Nehru dynasty. Intellectual Indira was admitted in Oxford University but driven out from there for non performance. She was then admitted to Shantiniketan but, #RabindranathTagore chased her out for her bad conduct.
After driven out of Shantiniketan, Indira became lonely as father was busy with politics and mother was dieing of tuberculosis in Switzerland. Playing with her loneliness, #FerozeKhan, son of a grocer named Nawab Khan who supplied wines etc to Motilal Nehru's house in Allahabad!
He was able to draw close to her. The then Governor of Maharashtra, Dr. Shriprakash warned Nehru, that Indira was having an illicit relation with Feroze Khan. Feroze Khan was then in England and he was quite sympathetic to Indira. Soon enough she changed her religion!
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On his death anniversary, I wanted to write something good about #SanjayGandhi, dropped that idea within few minutes... Life had other plans for dynasty, Nehru eliminated Dr S P Mookherjee and on the same date 27 years later, KARMA hit back.

Sanjay, who virtually
ran the country along with mother Indira was a SCHOOL DROP-OUT.

"My son is a delicate young man, and with whatever money & energy he has, he has modelled a car, not a posh one, but one fairly comfortable, suitable to Indian conditions... My son has shown enterprise and I just
could not say no to him... if he is not encouraged, how can I ask other young men to take risks"?
Indira Gandhi at a Press conference, September 1970.

By giving up her power to her beloved son Sanjay, Indira first institutionalised dynasty politics within Indian democracy,
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#TheTalwarAmendment:
The rot afflicting PSBs had started in 1976 when the #SBIAct was amended to authorise the Govt to remove the SBI Chairman w/o citing any reason.

Prior to this, chairman couldn't be removed before completion of his term, w/o giving "sufficient ground".
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This amendment to SBI Act is commonly known in banking circles as #theTalwarAmendment as it's sole purpose at that time was to remove #RKTalwar, the most illustrious chairman of #SBI, who refused to bow to a diktat of #SanjayGandhi, the most powerful politician at the time.
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The complete story behind this amendment is given in a booklet "R K Talwar: Values in Leadership" by #NVaghul, the illustrious chairman of #ICICIBank, who started his career in SBI and had been mentored by none other than Talwar himself. The story briefly goes as under.
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