Biography of Lal Bahadur Shastri, When and where was Lal Bahadur Shastri born?
Date of Death: Jan 11, 196
Place of Birth: Uttar Pradesh
Lal Bahadur Shastri was the second Prime Minister of independent India and a significant figure in the struggle for independence.
Shashtriji was born in Mughalsarai, in Uttar Pradesh. To
take part in the non-cooperation movement of
Mahatma Gandhi in 1921, he began studying
at the nationalist, Kashi Vidyapeeth in Kashi,
and upon completion, he was given the title
Shastri, or Scholar, Doctor at Kashi Vidyapeeth
in 1926. He spent almost nine years in jail in
total, mostly after the start of the Satyagraha
movement in 1940, he was imprisoned until
1946. Following India's independence, he was
Home Minister under Chief Minister Govind
Ballabh Pant of Uttar Pradesh. In 1951, he was
appointed General Secretary of the Lok Sabha
before re-gaining a ministerial post as Railways
Minister. He resigned as Minister following
a rail disaster near Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu. He
returned to the Cabinet following the General
Elections, first as Minister for Transport, in 1961,
he became Home Minister. After Jawaharlal
Nehru's death on May 27, 1964, he became the
prime minister. Shastri worked by his natural
characteristics to obtain compromises between
opposing viewpoints, but in his short tenure was
ineffectual in dealing with the economic crisis
and food shortage in the nation.
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However, he commanded a great deal of
respect in the Indian populace, and he used it
to advantage in pushing the Green Revolution
in India; which directly led to India becoming a food-surplus nation, although he did not live to
see it. His administration began on a rocky turf.
In 1965 Pakistan attacked India on the Kashmiri
front and Lal Bahadur Shastri responded in
kind by punching toward Lahore. In 1966 a
cease-fire was issued as a result of international
pressure. Lal Bahadur Shastri went to Tashkent
to hold talks with Ayub Khan and an agreement
was soon signed. Lal Bahadur passed away in
All his lifetime, he was known for his honesty
and humility. He was the first person to be
posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna and
a memorial “Vijay Ghat” was built for him
in Delhi. The slogan “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan' is
attributed to Shastri. 'If one person gives up one
ma eal in a day, some other person gets his only
meal of the day.': made during the food crisis to
encourage people to evenly distribute food.
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