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Lal Bahadur Shastri

Lal Bahadur Shastri
लाल बहादुर
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lal Bahadur Shastri
2nd Prime Minister of India
In office
9 June 1964 – 11 January 1966
President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Preceded by Gulzarilal Nanda
Succeeded by Gulzarilal Nanda
In office
9 June 1964 – 18 July 1964
Preceded by Gulzarilal Nanda
Succeeded by Sardar Swaran Singh
Minister of Home Affairs
In office
4 April 1961 – 29 August 1963
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
Preceded by Govind Ballabh Pant
Succeeded by Gulzarilal Nanda lal bahadur shastri
Personal details
Born Lal Bahadur Shastri−×
(1904-10-02)2 October 1904
Mughalsarai Varanasi, United Provinces, British Raj
(now in Uttar Pradesh, India)
Died 11 January 1966(1966-01-11) (aged 61)
Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
(now in Uzbekistan)
Political party Indian National Congress
Spouse(s) Lalita Devi
Residence 10 Janpath, New Delhi
Alma mater Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth
Profession Academic
Activist
Religion Hinduism
Awards Bharat Ratna 1966 (Posthumous)

Lal Bahadur Shastri (Hindustani: [laːl bəˈɦaːd̪ʊr ˈʃaːst̪ri], About this sound listen , 2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was the Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a leader of the Indian National Congress party.

Shastri joined the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. Deeply impressed and influenced by Mahatma Gandhi (with whom he shared his birthday), he became a loyal follower, first of Gandhi, and then of Jawaharlal Nehru. Following independence in 1947, he joined the latter's government and became one of Prime Minister Nehru's principal , first as Railways Minister (1951–56), and then in a variety of other functions, including Home Minister.

He led the country during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965. His slogan of "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan" ("Hail the soldier, Hail the farmer") became very popular during the war and is remembered even today. The war formally ended with the Tashkent Agreement of 10 January 1966; he died the following day, still in Tashkent, the cause of death was said to be a heart attack but there are various reasons to think that it was a planned murder by the CIA.


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