Feroze Gandhi took which position from Jul 1946 to 1950?
Feroze Gandhi Feroze Gandhi ( born Feroze Jehangir Ghandy ; 12 September 1912 – 8 September 1960 ) was an Indian freedom fighter , politician and journalist . He published the newspapers The National Herald and The Navjivan . He served as a member of the provincial parliament between 1950 and 1952 , and later a member of the Lok Sabha , the Lower House of Indias parliament . His wife , Indira Nehru ( daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru ) , and their elder son Rajiv were both Prime Ministers of India . Early life . Born as Feroze Jehangir Ghandy to a Parsi family at the Tehmulji Nariman Hospital also known as Parsi Lying-in Hospital situated in Fort , Bombay ; his parents , Jehangir Faredoon Ghandy and Ratimai ( née Commissariat ) , lived in Nauroji Natakwala Bhawan in Khetwadi Mohalla in Bombay . His father Jahangir was a marine engineer in Killick Nixon and was later promoted as a warrant engineer . Feroze was the youngest of the five children with two brothers Dorab and Faridun Jehangir , and two sisters , Tehmina Kershashp and Aloo Dastur . The family had migrated to Bombay from Bharuch ( now in South Gujarat ) where their ancestral home , which belonged to his grandfather , still exists in Kotpariwad . In the early 1920s , after the death of his father , Feroze and his mother moved to Allahabad to live with his unmarried maternal aunt , Shirin Commissariat , a surgeon at the citys Lady Dufferin Hospital ( biographer Katherine Frank has speculated that Feroze was in fact the biological son of Shirin Commissariat. ) He attended the Vidya Mandir High School and then graduated from the British-staffed Ewing Christian College . Family and career . In 1930 , the wing of Congress Freedom fighters , the Vanar Sena was formed . Feroze met Kamala Nehru and Indira among the women demonstrators picketing outside Ewing Christian College . Kamala fainted with the heat of the sun and Feroze went to comfort her . The next day , he abandoned his studies in 1930 to join the Indian independence movement . Being inspired by Mahatma Gandhi , Feroze changed the spelling of his surname from Ghandy to Gandhi after joining the Independence movement . He was imprisoned in 1930 , along with Lal Bahadur Shastri ( the 2nd Prime Minister of India ) , head of Allahabad District Congress Committee , and lodged in Faizabad Jail for nineteen months . Soon after his release , he was involved with the agrarian no-rent campaign in the United Province ( now Uttar Pradesh ) and was imprisoned twice , in 1932 and 1933 , while working closely with Nehru . Feroze first proposed to Indira in 1933 , but she and her mother rejected it , putting forward that she was too young , only 16 . He grew close to the Nehru family , especially to Indiras mother Kamala Nehru , accompanying her to the TB sanatorium at Bhowali in 1934 , helping arrange her trip to Europe when her condition worsened in April 1935 , and visiting her at the sanitarium at Badenweiler and finally at Lausanne , where he was at her bedside when she died on 28 February 1936 . In the following years , Indira and Feroze grew closer to each other while in England . They married in March 1942 according to Hindu rituals . Indiras father Jawaharlal Nehru opposed her marriage and approached Mahatma Gandhi to dissuade the young couple , but to no avail . The couple were arrested and jailed in August 1942 , during the Quit India Movement less than six months after their marriage . He was imprisoned for a year in Allahabads Naini Central Prison . The coming five years were of comfortable domestic life and the couple had two sons , Rajiv and Sanjay , born in 1944 and 1946 respectively . After independence , Jawaharlal became the first Prime Minister of India . Feroze and Indira settled in Allahabad with their two young children , and Feroze became Managing Director of The National Herald , a newspaper founded by his father-in-law . After being a member of the provincial parliament ( 1950–1952 ) , Feroze won independent Indias first general elections in 1952 , from Rae Bareli constituency in Uttar Pradesh . Indira came down from Delhi and worked as his campaign organizer . Feroze soon became a prominent force in his own right , criticizing the government of his father-in-law and beginning a fight against corruption . In the years after independence , many Indian business houses had become close to the political leaders , and now some of them started various financial irregularities . In a case exposed by Feroze in December 1955 , he revealed how Ram Kishan Dalmia , as chairman of a bank and an insurance company , used these companies to fund his takeover of Bennett and Coleman and started transferring money illegally from publicly held companies for personal benefit . In 1957 , he was re-elected from Rae Bareli . In the parliament in 1958 , he raised the Haridas Mundhra scandal involving the government controlled LIC insurance company . This was a huge embarrassment to the clean image of Nehrus government and eventually led to the resignation of the Finance Minister T.T . Krishnamachari . His rift with Indira had also become public knowledge by then , and added to the media interest in the matter . Feroze also initiated a number of nationalization drives , starting with the Life Insurance Corporation . At one point he also suggested that Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company ( TELCO ) be nationalized since they were charging nearly double the price of a Japanese railway engine . This raised a stir in the Parsi community since the Tatas were also Parsi . He continued challenging the government on a number of other issues , and emerged as a parliamentarian well-respected on both sides of the bench . Death and legacy . Feroze suffered a heart attack in 1958 . Indira , who stayed with her father at Teen Murti House , the official residence of the prime minister , was at that time away on a state visit to Bhutan . She returned to look after him in Kashmir . Feroze died in 1960 at the Willingdon Hospital , Delhi , after suffering a second heart attack . He was cremated and his ashes interred at the Parsi cemetery in Allahabad . His Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency seat was held by his daughter-in-law , and wife of Rajiv Gandhi , Sonia Gandhi in 2004 , 2009 , 2014 and 2019 . A school of higher education that he helped found was named after him in Rae Bareli . Unchahar Thermal Power Station of NTPC Limited in Uttar Pradesh was renamed to Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Plant by NTPC Limited .