Sanjay Gandhi's five-point programme came out that were controversial, focused on family planning, tree plantation, slum clearance, abolition of dowry and eradication of illiteracy. Sanjay demonstrated quite early that he took his pet projects seriously, especially family planning and slum clearance

Biju Patnaik, BLD leader from Orissa, who had once been close to the Nehru – Gandhi family, was also apprehensive about Indira Gandhi’s reaction. He had warned, ‘I know Indira Gandhi well. You must give her an exit route; if you completely corner her then in panic she may overreact’