A staunch loyalist of the Nehru-Gandhi family, he was in politics since 1950.
He was the founder patriarch of India's most powerful political family, the Nehru-Gandhi family.
Though part of the Nehru-Gandhi family, Sahgal developed a reputation for maintaining her independent critical sense.
The Nehru-Gandhi family, with its almost mythic status, still exerted a hold on the people's imagination.
Another generation of the Nehru-Gandhi family, which has provided prime ministers for 38 of independent India's 56 years, is entering politics.
The city and the district became famous as a political bastion of the Nehru-Gandhi Nationalist family.
An ardent partisan of the Nehru-Gandhi family.
Nanavati had moved in the same circles as the Nehru-Gandhi family for many years.
Referring to the three Prime Ministers from the Nehru-Gandhi family, she said that "a vacuum" in leadership had developed since her husband's death.
He was the second Congress PM from outside the Nehru-Gandhi family.