death spares no one

DEATH SPARES NO ONE brink of assuming this high office, when he was still 33, he met his end in the most sudden and drastic ways. on the morning of June 23, 1980, he wanted a joy ride in a new two-seater american aircraft and accompanied by Captain saxena, he took off from safdarjung airport in new delhi. unfortunately, the aircraft was only a short distance from the runway when it went out of control and crashed due to a sudden engine failure. Both sanjay Gandhi and his unfortunate passenger, Captain saxena, were killed instantaneously, and when their bodies were recovered from the debris, they were found severely mutilated. Just one day before this fatal accident, when sanjay Gandhi had been travelling in a car along with delhi’s lieutenant Governor, Mr. Jag Mohan, he had exuded confidence when he said, “There is no need to worry, be it a car or an aeroplane, nothing can go wrong while i am at the wheel.” he did not know that the following morning’s events would forever stifle that feeling of confidence. in the context of the brightness of his prospects, the Times of India, on June 24, 1980, observed, “What an irony that he should die so soon.” When a man is at the very zenith of his progress, death stops him short, as if it were negating the very efforts which had carried him towards success.