Sonia Gandhi: Indira Gandhi took India- Russia bond to new level

Moscow, April 10: UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday remembered how then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi took the Indian-Russian relationship to a new level during Bangladeshs War of Independence and the then USSR stood like a rock with India.

She also stressed that India Gandhi "was an influential and tireless global voice for peace and disarmament."

"Indira Gandhi took the Indo-Soviet link to a new level altogether, giving it solid strategic content as well. At India's moment of grave crisis in 1971, leading up to and during the Bangladesh's War of Independence, the USSR stood like a rock with India, something that Indira Gandhi never forgot." Gandhi said in her address at the Indira Gandhi Exhibition in Moscow, organised marking the Indira Gandhi's Centenary Anniversary.