BJP leader and Member of Parliament Maneka Gandhi, along with her son Varun Gandhi, paid tribute to the late Congress leader Sanjay Gandhi on his birth anniversary here on Saturday. Sanjay Gandhi, born on December 14, 1946, was the younger son of the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who died in an air crash on 23 June 1980 near Safdarjung Airport in New Delhi.

He was flying a new aircraft of Delhi Flying Club. Where shortly after the aircraft loses control and crashes.

Maneka Gandhi is a Lok Sabha MP from Sultanpur while Varun Gandhi is an MP from Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh. Maneka was the Minister of Women and Child Development in the first term of the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.