New Delhi, June 14 -- Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Sunday recalled former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's address at the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, describing it as a landmark speech in the global discourse on environmental protection.

In a post on X, Ramesh said that Indira Gandhi, who was one of only two heads of government to speak at the conference held from June 5, 1972, observed as World Environment Day, delivered what is widely regarded as one of her most memorable and historically significant addresses.

He noted that her speech is considered among the four major milestones in global environmental thought, alongside Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962), Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb (1968), and ...