Neelam Sanjiva Reddy was an Indian politician who served as the sixth president of India, serving from 1977 to 1982. Beginning a long political career with the Indian National Congress Party in the independence movement, he went on to hold several key offices in independent India – as Deputy Chief minister of Andhra state and the first chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, a two-time Speaker of the Lok Sabha and a Union Minister— before becoming the Indian president.
Reddy in January 1977
President Reddy doing an aerial survey of flood affected areas of Tamil Nadu in 1977.
President Jimmy Carter visited India during January 1–3, 1978. Seen in this picture of his reception at the airport in Delhi are (from left to right) President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, his wife, Jimmy Carter, Prime Minister Morarji Desai, the Indian Ambassador to the United States Nanabhoy Palkhivala, First Lady of the United States Rosalynn Carter and the External Affairs Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
President R. Venkataraman with Neelam Sanjiva Reddy at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party or simply the Congress, is a political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. From the late 19th century, and especially after 1920, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, the Congress became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement. The Congress led India to independence from the United Kingdom, and significantly influenced other anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire.
First session of Indian National Congress, Bombay, 28–31 December 1885
Bal Gangadhar Tilak speaking in 1907 as the Party split into moderates and extremists. Seated at the table is Aurobindo Ghosh and to his right (in the chair) is G. S. Khaparde, both allies of Tilak.
Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru during a meeting of the All India Congress, in 1946
Azad, Patel and Gandhi at an AICC meeting in Bombay, 1940