First Indira Gandhi ministry
6th ministry of theRepublic of India
Date formed	24 January 1966 (1966-01-24)
Date dissolved	13 March 1967 (1967-03-13)
People and organisations
Head of state	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Head of government	Indira Gandhi
Member party	Indian National Congress
Status in legislature	Majority
Opposition party	None
Opposition leader	None
History
Outgoing election	1967
Predecessor	Second Nanda ministry
Successor	Second Indira Gandhi ministry

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Prime Minister of India 1966–1977, 1980–1984 Family Early life and education Electoral history Public image Assassination Awards and honours Memorial Eponyms Premiership Rajya Sabha elections 1966 General elections 1967 1971 1977 1980 Union Council of Ministers Indira I Indira II Indira III Indira IV Rajya Sabha Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha Fourth Fifth Seventh Domestic Policy Economic Policy Foreign Policy International trips Constitutional amendments 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th 31st 32nd 33rd 34th 35th 36th 37th 38th 39th 40th 41st 42nd 45th 46th 47th 48th 49th 50th 51st National policy Legislation COFEPOSA Enemy Property Act, 1968 The Gold (Control) Act, 1968 IMDT MISA NPE North-Eastern Reorganisation Act Privy Purse Treaties and accords Delhi Agreement Indira–Sheikh Accord Shimla Agreement Sirima–Gandhi Pact Missions and projects Operation Blue Star Operation Flood Operation Lal Dora Operation Steeplechase Operation Sundown 1975 Sikkimese monarchy referendum Samjhauta Express Smiling Buddha Controversies Emergency Baroda dynamite case State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain Turkman gate Riots and attacks 1966 anti-cow slaughter agitation 1974 railway strike in India 1975 Sikkimese monarchy referendum 1980 Moradabad riots Insurgency in Punjab Airbus hijacking Gallery: Picture, Sound, Video
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TheFirst Indira Gandhi ministry was formed on 24 January 1966^[1] under the premiership ofIndira Gandhi who was elected as thePrime Minister of India by theCongress Parliamentary Party to succeedGulzarilal Nanda who was serving as the acting prime minister since 11 January 1966 following the untimely demise ofLal Bahadur Shastri.The cabinet remained in office until the1967 general election in whichIndira Gandhi was re-elected to office.

Prime MinisterLal Bahadur Shastri passed away suddenly on 11 January 1966 atTashkent during his visit toUzbek SSR, just a day after signing theTashkent Declaration which formally ended theIndo-Pakistani War of 1965. He was succeeded by Home MinisterGulzarilal Nanda as the Acting Prime Minister. Nanda remained the prime minister for thirteen days until the election ofIndira Gandhi who served as Minister of Information and Broadcasting in the cabinets of Shastri and Nanda. Indira Gandhi was formally elected as the Prime Minister by the rulingIndian National Congress party. She was thereupon formally sworn-in as the nation's third prime minister on 24 January 1966 by PresidentSarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

Gandhi's council of ministers included a majority of the ministers from her predecessor's cabinet. Outgoing acting prime ministerGulzarilal Nanda was re-appointed home minister. She retained Defence MinisterYashwantrao Chavan, Education MinisterM. C. Chagla, Railways MinisterS. K. Patil, Finance MinisterSachindra Chaudhuri, Communications and Parliamentary MinisterSatya Narayan Sinha, Agriculture MinisterChidambaram Subramaniam, External Affairs MinisterSwaran Singh in their respective portfolios. Other ministers who were retained from the predecessor cabinet includedNeelam Sanjiva Reddy,Damodaram Sanjivayya,Manubhai Shah,Mehr Chand Khanna,Raj Bahadur,Surendra Kumar Dey,Sushila Nayyar,Jaisukhlal Hathi,Kotha Raghuramaiah,O. V. Alagesan,Ram Subhag Singh,Bali Ram Bhagat,A. M. Thomas,C. M. Poonacha,Jagannath Rao,C. R. Pattabhiraman,Bibudhendra Mishra,Tribhuvan Narain Singh,Shah Nawaz Khan,Dajisaheb Chavan,Purnendu Sekhar Naskar,B. S. Murthy,Lalit Narayan Mishra,T. S. Soundaram,Bhakt Darshan, Sham Nath, B. C. Bhagawati,Shyam Dhar Mishra.

• Two of the cabinet ministers, viz.Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed andNeelam Sanjiva Reddy would later serve as the 5th and 6thPresident of India respectively. Reddy would also serve as theSpeaker of the Lok Sabha on two separate occasions.
• Minister of LawGopal Swarup Pathak would later be elected as the 4thVice President of India in 1969.
• Chidambaram Subramaniam,Satya Narayan Sinha,Gopal Swarup Pathak,Jaisukhlal Hathi,Bali Ram Bhagat,C. M. Poonacha,Tribhuvan Narain Singh,Mohammad Shafi Qureshi,Bhanu Prakash Singh,S. C. Jamir would later be appointed as governors of several states.
• Tribhuvan Narain Singh would later serve asChief Minister of Uttar Pradesh,Prakash Chandra Sethi asChief Minister of Madhya Pradesh andS. C. Jamir asChief Minister of Nagaland.

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