Makhan lal fotedar biography of mahatma gandhi

He was in his heyday a very influential Congress figure, wholly trusted by Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.

 

 

Makhanlal Fotedar was born on 5 March at Matan in Anantnag district of the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir.

He passed away on , a bitter, disillusioned but a proud man.

In , his charmingly titled autobiography, The Chinar Leaves was published.

According to a memoir by the former prime minister's aide Makhan Lal Fotedar, Gandhi told him, “People will see me in her.” However, Gandhi.

One day, soon after M.L. Fotedar had joined Indira Gandhi as political secretary in July , she told him to sit at 1 Akbar Road.

Makhan Lal Fotedar.

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When Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in to succeed his mother, one of his first official acts was to replace Dhawan with Fotedar and other younger.

It has lot of political masala in it. For nearly a decade and a half, M.L. Fotedar was among the very few Congressmen who were in the know of what was going on in the Congress in Delhi and Congress ruled states. He was an accomplished trouble shooter.

He knew who was saying what and to whom and where.

Makhan Lal Fotedar was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress party He was a close aide of the NehruGandhi family especially Indira Gandhi He was.

He was much feared by most of Congress leaders for several years. He had one loyalty—besides his family, to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty (an elected dynasty). He was in his heyday a very influential and powerful Congress figure, wholly trusted by Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, but not %