Sanjay Gandhi was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. During his lifetime he was widely expected to succeed his mother, Indira Gandhi as head of the Indian National Congress, but following his early death in a plane crash his elder brother Rajiv became their mother's political heir, and succeeded her as Prime Minister of India after her death. Sanjay's widow Maneka Gandhi and son Varun Gandhi are leading politicians of the BJP.
The name 'Sanjay' comes in the context of the Great Indian Epic 'Mahabharatha'. Sanjay in Mahabharatha was said to have clairvoyance abilities and he used to tell the blind King Dhritarashtra about the war which was going on in kurukshetra.