“Soon after his unusual election as the fourth President of India, he addressed Srimathi Indira Gandhi as his daughter.”

Source: Presidents of India, 1950-2003, P.80

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“Soon after his unusual election as the fourth President of India, he addressed Srimathi Indira Gandhi as his daughter.”

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