WI Sanjay Gandhi lived?

If he didn't crash a plane (Pitts S-2A) he wasn't qualified to fly on June 23, 1980, what would the consequences have been? At the time of his death he'd just been elected a Congress MP in the January federal election. Katherine Frank (Indira's best Western biographer) estimates 50% or more (150+ of 353) of the Congress parliamentary caucus were Sanjay followers. He had become his mother's trusted adviser and de facto deputy whom she rarely contradicted. Almost as if Robert Kennedy "controlled" JFK. Except this was a completely unqualified 34 year old playboy who's intelligence rivaled Gov. Palin's. At the time of his death, she was grooming him for succession, and his relations with Rajiv were cool. He also admired Imelda's husband. Not that he had one iota of Marcos' intelligence (or his brother's).
 
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