Lal Bahadur Shastri Birth Anniversary

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- He was the second Prime Minister of India.
- The Shastri in the name of India’s second Prime Minister is not his surname. It is a scholastic title he earned from Kashi Vidyapeeth during his graduate studies.
- He never used his real surname (Srivastava) because he was completely against the caste system.
- Shastriji was a common man. He was very unpretentious and down-to-earth. He was diminutive, soft-spoken and mild-mannered. What made him spectacular was his impeccable integrity.
- When Shastriji was in jail during the independence struggle, he protested when his wife smuggled two mangoes to him in the Faizabad prison. He was angry because it was illegal for prisoners to have anything other than jail food.
- After he became the Prime Minister, his son once took his official car for a joy ride. Shastriji made sure that he paid for the distance the car was run that day.
-Shastriji’s premiership began at a time when India was not self- sufficient in food- grain production. In the midst of chronic food shortages, the country was compelled to go to war with Pakistan in 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 of heart attack the following day, still in Tashkent. The cause of death has been a subject of conspiracy theories.
- There are many who say that had he lived longer, India would have been different. Today, 2nd October, is his birthday- as it is of Mahatma Gandhi. There are enough people to remember Gandhiji ; very few remember Shastriji.

Jai Hind !

 

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Long live LBS

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Good post