Lal Bahadur Shastri

Lal Bahadur Shastri

                                           

Second Prime Minister of India

Tenure - 9 June 1964 - 11 January 1966

Foreign Minister of India
Tenure - 9 June 1964 - 18 July 1964

Home Minister of India
Tenure - 4 April 1961 - 29 August 1963

Born - 2 October 1904 (Mughalsarai, now Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya British India)

Death - 11 January 1966 (age 61) Tashkent, Soviet Union

Political Party - Indian National Congress

Life partner - Lalita Shastri

Mr. Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on 2 October 1904 in a small railway town, Mungalsarai, seven miles away from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. His father was a school teacher. When Lal Bahadur Shastri was only one and a half years old, his father had died. His mother went to her father's house with her three children.

Lal Bahadur's schooling in that small town has not been special, but despite his poverty, despite his childhood, his childhood was well-lived.

He was sent to live with uncle in Varanasi so that he could get high school education. Everyone at home called him under the name of Nanhe. They used to travel several miles away from school to barefoot, even in the fierce heat, when the roads used to be very hot, they had to go like this.

Along with being, Lal Bahadur Shastri started taking more interest in the country's struggle for independence from foreign slavery. They were extremely impressed by the condemnation of Mahatma Gandhi by Indian kings supporting British rule in India. Lal Bahadur Shastri, when he was only eleven years old, had made up his heart to do something at the national level.

Gandhiji called upon his countrymen to join the non-cooperation movement, Lal Bahadur Shastri was only sixteen years old. He had decided to leave his studies on this call of Mahatma Gandhi. His decision broke his mother's hopes. His family tried very hard to stop him from saying this decision wrong but he failed in that. Lal Bahadur had made his mind. All his closest people knew that once they have made their minds they will never change their decision because the Lal Bahadur, who looks polite in the outside, is as firm as a rock.

Lal Bahadur Shastri, one of the many national institutions established in the disobedience of British rule, joined Kashi Vidya Peeth of Varanasi. Here he came under the influence of great scholars and nationalists of the country. The bachelor's degree awarded to him by Vidya Peeth was 'Shastri' but in the mind of the people it settled as a part of his name.

They got married in 1927. His wife Lalita Devi was from Mirzapur who was near her own town. Their marriage was traditional in all respects. On the name of dowry, there was a spinning wheel and hand-woven meter clothes. They did not want anything more than this in the form of dowry.

In 1930 Mahatma Gandhi broke the salt law and traveled to Dandi. This symbolic message brought about a revolution in the whole country. Lal Bahadur Shastri joined this struggle of independence with the tremendous energy. He led many rebel campaigns and remained in British prisons for a total of seven years. This struggle of independence made them completely mature.

Even before the Congress came to power after independence, the leaders of national struggle had already understood the importance of Vineet and Namr Lal Bahadur Shastri. When the Congress Government was formed in 1946, this 'Little Dynamo' was asked to play a constructive role in the rule of the country. He was appointed as a parliamentary secretary of his home state of Uttar Pradesh, and soon he was also appointed as the Home Minister. His ability to work hard and his skill became a fame in Uttar Pradesh. He came to New Delhi in 1951 and took charge of several departments of the Union Cabinet - the Railway Minister; Minister of Transport and Communications; Minister of Commerce & Industry; During the illness of Home Minister and Nehru ji, he was without a minister of the department. Their reputation was increasingly growing. Due to himself being responsible for a rail accident in which many people were killed, he resigned from the post of Railway Minister. The country and parliament appreciated this unprecedented initiative of their country. The then Prime Minister Pandit Nehru highly praised the sincerity and high ideals of Lal Bahadur Shastri while speaking in Parliament on this incident. He said that he has not accepted the resignation of Lal Bahadur Shastri because whatever has happened he is responsible for this, but has accepted it because it will set a precedent in constitutional limits. Lal Bahadur Shastri said, answering a lengthy debate on the rail accident; "Maybe because of being small in my length and being humble people think that I am not getting very strong. Although physically I am not strong but I feel that I am not so weakly internally. "

Even during the functioning of his ministry, he looked at matters related to the Congress party and contributed a lot to it. In the 1952, 1957 and 1962 general elections, the party's decisive and extraordinary success contributed greatly to his organizational talent and his amazing ability to test things closely.

Lal Bahadur Shastri became famous among the people for his lofty fidelity and ability during his dedicated service for more than thirty years. Shastri, who has a humble, firm, tolerant and intense inner power, emerged as a person among people who understood the feelings of the people. They were visionary who brought the country on the path of progress. Lal Bahadur Shastri was extremely influenced by Mahatma Gandhi's political teachings. Once in his own accent with his master, Mahatma Gandhi, he had said - "Hard work is like praying." Lal Bahadur Shastri, who has a similar opinion of Mahatma Gandhi, is the best known Indian culture.

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