Lal Bahadur Shastri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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The second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a leader of the Indian National Congress party
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Place of Birth: Mughalsarai, Uttar Pradesh, India
About Lal Bahadur Shastri
- Lal Bahadur Shastri (pronounced [la?l b?'?a?d?r '?a?stri], listen , 2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was the 2nd Prime Minister of India and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress political party. Deeply impressed and influenced by Mahatma Gandhi (with whom he shared his birthday), he joined the Indian independence movement in the 1920s.
- Following independence in 1947, he joined Gandhi's government and became one of Prime Minister Nehru's principals, 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.
- The war formally ended with the Tashkent Agreement on 10 January 1966; he died the following day, still in Tashkent, with the cause of his death in dispute and it was reported to be a cardiac arrest but his family was not satisfied with it.
- Shastri was Congress loyalist.
- Although Shastri faced stiff opposition from within his party, his relationship with the party and his work aided his ascension to the office of Prime Minister.
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