Once Indira Gandhi went to the Soviet Union on a foreign tour as Prime Minister. And since then Soviet Union and India had very good rel...
Once Indira Gandhi went to the Soviet Union on a foreign tour as Prime Minister. And since then Soviet Union and India had very good relations.
When Indira Gandhi landed at Moscow airport in Soviet Union , according to protocol, it was obligatory to welcome by the Prime Minister of Soviet Union or a minister of that rank, but no major person from Soviet Union Goverment came. At that time, India's ambassador to Soviet Union was Inder Kumar Gujral who later became the Prime Minister of India. Seeing that there was no one to welcome her in Soviet Union , Indira Gandhi asked Gujral to take the car to the Indian Embassy.
There was a colony of Indian people around Embassy. Indira ji gathered the children, and they started playing with them there.
The Kremlin Palace of Moscow was fixed And decorated by Soviet Government for Indira ji's sake, but after waiting for a long time, Soviet government officials came to know that Indira ji went directly to the Indian Embassy instead of the Kremlin.
Realizing his mistake, the Prime Minister of Soviet Union along with his government officials respectfully brought Indira from Indian Embassy.
On going there, the Prime Minister of Soviet Union apologized to Indira Gandhi. Then what Indira ji said was worth listening to. She said that "I am not personally angry or angry at all because of your mistake. But as a Prime Minister, while representing 600 million Indians, I have a responsibility to maintain the dignity of my country and the people there, so I took this step ".
Indira Gandhi really had the courage to say this to another prime minister in a foreign country in honor of her country.
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