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Lal bahadur shastri Biography 

Lal Bahadur Shastri Born, caste, family

Early life of Lal Bahadur Shastri

Lal Bahadur Shastri is a young Satyagrahi 

Lal Bahadur Shastri's Political Career

Death of Lal Bahadur Shastri

 
Lal Bahadur Shastri Born, caste, family-

Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on 2 October 1904 in Mughalsarai (Uttar Pradesh), British India. Shastriji was born into a Kayastha family in Uttar Pradesh. His father's name was Munshi Sharda Prasad Srivastava, he was a primary school teacher and he was known as 'Munshi Ji'. His mother's name was Ram Dulari.

Name - Lal Bahadur Sharda Prasad Srivastava

Born - October 2, 1904

Place of birth - Mughalsarai, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Father - Munshi Sharda Prasad Srivastava

Mother - Ram Dulari Devi

Education - Harishchandra Vidyalaya, Kashi University

Wife - Lalita Devi

Died - January 11, 1966

Award - "Bharat Ratna"

Early life of Lal Bahadur Shastri -

As a child, Lal Bahadurji was called 'Nanhe' by his family. In April 1906, when Shastri was 1 year and 6 months old, his father, who had just been promoted to deputy tehsildar, died of the bubonic plague. Mrs. Ramdulari Devi, then only 23 years old and pregnant with her third child, moved from Ramnagar to her father's house in Mughalsarai with her two children and settled there for good. She gave birth to a daughter, Sundari Devi, in July 1906.

Thus, Shastri and his sisters grew up in the house of their grandfather Hazari Lalji. However, Hazari Lalji himself died of a stroke (a stroke is a medical condition in which cells die due to poor blood flow to the brain). In mid-1908, the family was taken care of by his brother (Shastri's uncle) Darbari Lal, who was the chief clerk in the opium regulation department at Ghazipur, and later by his son (Ramdulari Devi's cousin) Bindeshwari Prasad.

He completed his primary education at Mirzapur and later at Harishchandra High School and Kashi University. Lal Bahadurji graduated in Sanskrit. He got the degree of 'Shastri' in Kashi University. From this time on, he added the name 'Shastri' to his name. After this he came to be known as Shastri. He was married to Lalita Shastri in 1928. They had six children. One of his sons, Anil Shastri, was a member of the Congress party.

Lal Bahadur Shastri is a young Satyagrahi - 

In the freedom struggle, Shastriji proclaimed 'Don't die', which ignited the flame of freedom in the whole country. In 1920, Shastriji jumped into the freedom struggle and joined the Bharat Sevak Sangh. He was a 'Gandhian' leader who devoted his entire life to the service of the country and the poor. Shastriji used to participate in all movements and events, so he often had to go to jail. He took an active part in the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1921, the Dandi Yatra in 1930 and the Quit India Movement in 1942.

India's independence struggle was also in full swing during the Second World War. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose founded the Azad Hind Fauj with the slogan 'Delhi-Chalo' and at the same time on August 8, 1942, Gandhi's 'Leave India Movement' gained momentum. Interim Shastriji gave the slogan 'Do or Die' to wake up the Indians, but on August 9, 1942, Shastriji changed the slogan in Allahabad and appealed to the people of the country by saying 'Do not die'. Shastriji remained underground for eleven days during the agitation, after which he was arrested on 19 August 1942.

Lal Bahadur Shastri's Political Career - 

In independent India, he was appointed Secretary to the Parliament of Uttar Pradesh. Under the shadow of Govind Vallabhpant's cabinet, he was given police and transport arrangements. Shastriji, meanwhile, appointed the first woman as a conductor and made it a rule in the police department to control the crowd with water guns instead of sticks. In 1951, Shastriji was made the General Secretary of the All-India National Congress. Lal Bahadur Shastri was always dedicated to the party. In the elections of 1952, 1957, 1962, he campaigned a lot for the party and gave a landslide victory to the Congress.

Seeing the potential of Shastriji, he was appointed as the Prime Minister after the untimely demise of Jawaharlal Nehru, but his tenure was very difficult. Capitalist countries and enemy countries had made their power extremely challenging. Suddenly in 1965, at 7.30 pm, Pakistan launched an air attack on India. In this situation, President Sarvapalli Radha Krishnan called a meeting. The meeting was attended by the heads of three defense departments and Shastriji.

During the discussion, the chief informed Lal Bahadur Shastri of the whole situation and waited for the order, to which Shastri replied, "You protect the country and tell me what we want to do." Thus, during the Indo-Pak war, Shastri gave commendable leadership and chanted the slogan "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan" which created unity in the country and India defeated Pakistan, which Pakistan never imagined. Because China had defeated India in the war three years ago.

In the 1965 war, Lal Bahadur Shastri's slogan 'Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan' boosted the morale of soldiers and farmers during times of food scarcity.

Death of Lal Bahadur Shastri -

In 1966, the Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri met the then President of Pakistan Ayub Khan in the Russian capital Tashkent to sign a peace agreement between India and Pakistan. During this time, a number of key issues were signed to bring peace to both India and Pakistan. Lal Bahadur Shastri died mysteriously on January 11, 1966, the night the peace treaty was signed.

As Lal Bahadur Shastri passed away at night, people started arguing about his demise. According to some, he was assassinated in a conspiracy. So, according to some, they were poisoned. Also, some people believe that he died of a heart attack.

Many such thoughts have been raised about his death. But to this day, the mystery of his demise has not been revealed to anyone. The special thing about the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri was that his body was not autopsied.

Lal Bahadur Shastri's wife Lalita has given a very emotional explanation of Shastri's demise in her book 'Lalita Ke Ansu'. She also mentioned that she had poisoned her husband. Her son also tried to unravel the mystery of her death. But they did not succeed.

To this day, the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri remains a mystery. Lal Bahadur Shastri is the first Indian Prime Minister to die overseas on foreign soil. Vijayghata has been constructed in his memory in Delhi. After the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri, Gulzarilal Nanda was appointed as the Prime Minister. Lal Bahadur Shastri was a loyal, truthful, activist. He was also a priest of non-violence like Mahatma Gandhi. He was saying,

Evidencing this, Shastri says that just as many people lie when faced with a difficult situation in life, they follow the wrong path. As a result, they eventually regret what they did. This is why we should always support the truth when faced with any situation in life.

According to Lal Bahadur, the path of truth, though, is difficult, and long. Yet the same path leads to happiness in our lives. The best example of practical life is to have such idealistic qualities as simplicity, selflessness, civility, sacrifice, generosity, determination. Which was only visible among Lal Bahadur Shastri.