7,8 and 9th : 

Face to face with Indira Gandhi,former PM of India

I came face to face with Indira Gandhi first in 1976 during the All India Congress Committee Meet at Guwahati. I was attached to her as PSO. I had to be with her wherever she went for 2 to 3 days.. A gentile, caring person. Second time it was when she came to Guwahati ex-PM to address a number of meetings all over Kamrup dist of which i was the SP. She started her journey in the the Dist when sun was going down the horizon in the west late in the evening during early winters in 1977. Huge crowds had come to listen to her at Guwahati. She left for rural areas of the Dist where large crowds were waiting at several places and not in less than 10 places. I accompanied her. On way i came face to face with her at rest houses where she stopped for a while. At one place, a platform from where she was to address the crowd broke down. But it did not deter her from proceeding ahead with the program. Her tour covered mainly immigrant Muslim areas. By the time we returned it was dawn. The sun had started rising......There was a big furor in the new Janta government which had taken over sometime back about me. I rang up the Chief Minister and informed him about Mrs Gandhi's journey. I said that i gave her security to which she was entitled to as e-x PM and i did not do any thing more......Third time i met her at the Guwahati helipad 5 years later along with the Governor Assam and others as the then DIG of Police WR Assam. When the Governor wanted to introduce to her,she said she knew me. Later i met her in the Circuit house and i requested for a posting in Delhi as our children needed to go there for education in the university. She told Shri Habibulla,a Director in the PMO, to make a note of my request. When I saw her off at the helipad at the end of the tour, i noticed that Shri Hiteswar Saikia,the then Chief Minister, was even shorter than her in height. This was my last meeting with her. She was assassinated in 1984. It was her instruction that brought me to CBI. May her soul rest in peace.

Quotable Quotes :"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."Archimedes