Lal Bahadur Shastri

1. Born: October 2, 1904 Died: January 10, 1966 Achievements: Played a leading role in Indian freedom struggle; became Parliamentary Secretary of Pandit Govind Vallabh Pant, the then chief minister of Uttar Pradesh; became the Minister of Police and Transport in Pants Cabinet; appointed as the Railways and Transport Minister in the Central Cabinet; also held the portfolios of Transport & Communications, Commerce and Industry, and Home Ministry in th .....

Life

2. Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on October 2, 1904, to Ramdulari Devi and Sharada Prasad Shrivastava, in Moghalsarai, United Province (Uttar Pradesh). He shares his birthday with Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation. Lal Bahadur was against the prevailing caste system and therefore decided to drop his surname. The title Shastri was given after the completion of his graduation at Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi in 1925. The title Shastri refers to a s .....

Active Nationalist

3. In 1930, Lal Bahadur Shastri became the secretary of the Congress party and later the president of the Allahabad Congress Committee. He played a crucial role during the Salt Movement. Lal Bahadur lead a door to door campaign, urging people not to pay land revenue and taxes to the British authority. The leader was also sent to jail for the campaign. During the long span of nine years he spent in jails, Lal Bahadur utilized the time in reading the .....

Post Independence

4. Lal Bahadur Shastri had served in various positions before being elected as the Prime Minister. After Independence, he became the Minister of police in the Ministry of Govind Vallabh Panth in Uttar Pradesh. His recommendations included the introduction of water jets instead of sticks to disperse the unruly mob. Impressed with his efforts in reforming the state police department, Jawaharlal Nehru, invited Shastri to join the Union cabinet as a Min .....

Prime Minister

5. Jawaharlal Nehru was succeeded by a mild mannered and soft spoken Lal Bahadur Shastri on 9 June, 1964. He was a follower of Nehruvian socialism. Despite the strong influence and desire of becoming the Prime Minister, of some party stalwarts Shastri emerged as the consensus candidate.Shastri tackled many elementary problems like food shortage, unemployment and poverty. To overcome the acute food shortage, Shastri asked the experts to devise a long .....

Marriage

6. He got married to the Lalitha Devi of Mirzapur on 16th of May in 1928 and took a charkha and few yards of Khadi as a marriage gift. .....

Non cooperation movement

7. Till the age ten he stayed at his grandfathers home and had passed the 6th standard. He has completed his higher education from Varanasi. He had joined the non cooperation movement against British Government in 1921 by Mahatma Gandhi when he was only seventeen years old. Even he was arrested during that movement but he was firm in his decision. He took part in that movement even after advice from his mother and relatives to not to do so. .....

The servants of the people society

8. He joined the Kashi Vidya Peeth after his release and completed his philosophy study. He got the degree of Shastri in 1926 and after leaving Kashi Vidya Peeth he had joined the The Servants of the People Society started by Lala Lajpat Rai in 1921. The aim of the The Servants of the People Society was to aware youths about their responsibilities towards country. .....

Civil Disobedience Movement

9. In 1930, he joined the Civil Disobedience Movement as there was call to him from Gandhiji. He was called to join that movement in order to encourage people to oppose to pay land profits and taxes to the government. He had to go in jail for two and half years. He got familiar with all the works of western philosophers, revolutionaries as well as social reformers in the jail. .....

Individual Satyagraha

10. Individual Satyagraha was launched by the Congress in 1940 in order to demand freedom just after the Second World War in 1939. He got arrested for one year during that Individual Satyagraha as well. He again got a call from Gandhiji on August 8, 1942 for Quit India Movement. He took part very actively and got arrested for long. He met with the Pandit Govind Vallabh Pant and got good comments for his hard work throughout the 1946 provincial electi .....

As a State Minister

11. After the independence of India, he was selected as the Parliamentary Secretary in his own state, Uttar Pradesh. On 15th of August in the year 1947, he allotted as the Minister of Police and Transport under the Chief Ministership of the Govind Ballabh Pant. He was the first Transport Minister who employed women conductors and Minister of Police who ordered to use jets of water in place of lathis to the police to scatter the public crowds. .....

As a Cabinet Minister

12. He was selected as the General Secretary of All India Congress Committee in the year 1951 when Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister. As a General Secretary, he was in charge for the candidates selection and all the activities related to the election. On 3rd of April in 1952, he was nominated to the Rajya Sabha from UP and appointed as the Railways and Transport Minister in the Central Cabinet from 13th of May, 1952 to 7th of December, 1956. Af .....

Madras anti Hindi agitation

13. When he was assigned as a Prime Minister of the India after the death of the former Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru on 27th of May in 1964, he retained various earlier members from the Council of Jawaharlal Nehru such as Yashwantrao Chavan as a Defence Minister of India, Swaran Singh as an External Affairs Minister, Indira Gandhi as a Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Gulzarilal Nanda as a Minister of Home Affairs of India, T. T. Krishna .....

Green Revolution Campaign

14. During his Prime Ministership, he had involved in maintaining as well as enhancing the Indian economy through his great policies. He made his own policies for enhancing the Indian economy as well as continued the socialist economic policies of the former prime minister. He had promoted the most famous national campaign of increasing the supply and production of milk called White Revolution through supporting various dairy companies like Amul milk .....

Jai Jawan Jai Kisan

15. He was a great Prime Minister of India as he had given his outstanding supports and efforts in making the country a developed country. He is remembered all over the country by the people at his birthday anniversary and death anniversary each year. Even after being an ordinary Indian person he worked so great like an extraordinary man to lead his country.He became a successful Prime Minister of the India as he led the India during its most disastr .....

His Contribution in the Foreign Policies

16. He had paid great involvement in the foreign policies to enhance the country defense budget by increasing the closer relationship with the Soviet Union after the disastrous condition of the country of Sino Indian War in 1962. He had decided to increase the defense budget of armed forces of the country after the military ties of Chinese Peoples Republic and Pakistan.He also had signed the agreement of Srimavo Shastri Pact (Bandaranaike Shastri pac .....

Indo Pak War

17. He was a great warrior who led the India to get victory in the Indo Pak War in the year 1965. He had said in his statement that during the economic development of the country, we would favor to be alive in the poverty for long time according to the necessity but we never let our freedom to be threatened. The purpose of Pakistan was Kashmir during the Indo Pak War, however, Lal Bahadur Shashtri made them clear that force would be answered only wit .....

Lal Bahadur Shastri Death Mystery

18. He endured a fatal heart attack some hours after signing a treaty on 10th of January in 1966, in which India and Pakistan have the same opinion to not to interfere in each other internal affairs as well as never force or settle disputes between them by the peaceful means. He died on 11th of January in the year 1966. .....

Great achievements

19. He played a great and leading role for the freedom of India. He became the Pandit Govind Vallabh Pants Parliamentary Secretary followed by the chief minister of UP. In the Pants Cabinet he became the Minister of Police as well as Transport and allotted as the Minister of the Railways and Transport in the Central Cabinet. He also apprehended the assortments of Commerce and Industry, Transport and Communications, as well as the Home Ministry in the .....

Bharat Ratna

20. He was a dazzling star of an Indian history. The President of India bestowed him the award of Bharat Ratna after his death. .....

Domestic policies

21. Shastri retained many members of Nehrus Council of Ministers. T. T. Krishnamachari was retained as the Finance Minister of India, as was Defence Minister Yashwantrao Chavan. He appointed Swaran Singh to succeed him as External Affairs Minister. He also appointed Indira Gandhi, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru and former Congress President, as the Minister of Information and Broadcasting. Gulzarilal Nanda continued as the Minister of Home Affairs.Shas .....

Economic policies

22. Shastri continued Nehrus socialist economic policies with central planning. He promoted the White Revolution a national campaign to increase the production and supply of milk by supporting the Amul milk co operative of Anand, Gujarat and creating the National Dairy Development Board. Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India, visited Anand on 31 October 1964 for inauguration of the Cattle Feed Factory of Amul at Kanjari. As he was keenl .....

Foreign policies

23. Shastri continued Nehrus policy of non alignment but also built closer relations with the Soviet Union. In the aftermath of the Sino Indian War of 1962 and the formation of military ties between the Chinese Peoples Republic and Pakistan, Shastris government decided to expand the defence budget of Indias armed forces.In 1964, Shastri signed an accord with the Sri Lankan Prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike regarding the status of Indian Tamils in .....

War with Pakistan

24. Shastris greatest moment came when he led India in the 1965 Indo Pak War.Laying claim to half the Kutch peninsula, the Pakistani army skirmished with Indian forces in August, 1965. In his report to the Lok Sabha on the confrontation in Kutch, Shastri stated.In the utilization of our limited resources, we have always given primacy to plans and projects for economic development. It would, therefore, be obvious for anyone who is prepared to look at .....

Memorials

25. Shastri was known for his honesty and humility throughout his life. He was the first person to be posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, and a memorial Vijay Ghat was built for him in Delhi.Several educational institutes, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (Mussorie, Uttarakhand) is after his name.Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management was established in Delhi by the Lal Bahadur Shastri Educational Trust in 1995 as is one .....

Freedoms Soldier

26. The struggle for freedom was intensifield all over the country in 1930. Mahatma Gandhi started the Salt Satyagraha. Lal Bahadur took a leading role in it.At the age of seventeen Lal Bahadur had participated in a procession against the British Government. The government had arrested him and then freed him. But this time it did not let him off easily. He had been calling on people not to pay land revenue and taxes to the government and the governme .....

The Responsibility of Freedom

27. Later, in 1947, Lal Bahadur became the Minister of Police and Transport in Pants Ministry. He took many steps to bring discipline into the administration. As Transport Minister he subjected government buses to discipline. He was the first to appoint women conductors. Usually the minister in charge of the Police Department will not remain popular for long. But Lal Bahadur Shastri never allowed the police to resort to lathi charge and firing. He or .....

China Cannot Frighten Us

28. Just at this time another danger threatened India. China sent a letter, which said, The Indian army has set up army equipment in Chinese territory. India should pull down this equipment. Otherwise it will have to face the wrath of China.At that moment India was fighting against the Pakistani army equipped with the latest weapons supplied in plety by the United States of America. And, at this very moment how was India to resist China.Chinas allega .....

Force will be met with force

29. Even before the ink with which they had signed the Kutch agreement dried up, Pakisthan raised its hood to strike again. Pakistani soldiers entered Kashmir in disguise. In September 1965 there was a large scale invasion of the territory by Pakistani soldiers in the Chhamb area. War broke out all along the Cease fire Line on the Kashmir border.The enemies who had managed to enter Kashmir were cunning and mischievous. Pakistan also tried to incite I .....

Death

30. Lal Bahadur Shastri, who had earlier suffered two heart attacks, died of the third cardiac arrest on 11 January, 1966. He is the only Indian Prime Minister, to have died in office, overseas. Lal Bahadur Shastri was the first person to be posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, (Indias highest civilian award). .....