Lalbahadur Shastri a Former Prime Minister of India -Birth day on 2nd October
                                                                                                                           Lalbahadur Shastri was second congress Prime minister of India after Jawaherlal Nehru. He was simple, honest and man of character. He lived very simple life and died without much wealth. He became very popular because of victory of India in war with Pakistan. He gave slogan "Jai Jawan, Jai kishan". However died in Tashkent where he had gone to sign ceasefire treaty with Pakistan under mediation of Russia. It was very sad event.
                                                                                        Lalbahadur was from Allahabad and was very loyal to Nehru since beginning. Besides that he was sincere and honest worker who came up from lower to top leadership. He came up from very poor family where he had to cross the river by foot for going to school.

                                                                                       Morarjibhai was relived under' Kamaraj Plan  as he did not cooperated with the Nehru desires to make Indira Prime Minister. Lalbahdur was also relieved with Morarjibhai  in order show his impartiality as he was one of his his close colleagues. However Lalbahadur was taken back in the cabinet after a while giving him the ministry with out portfolio. It is history that thereafter Morarjibhai has to struggle for Prime Minister for more then ten years.
                                                                                       Lalbahadur was very mild and his loyalty to Nehru family was without any doubt. He had worked with Morarjibhai in the Nehru cabinet for several years and had great respect for his Character, Administrative abilities, and including of his principles. Therefore it is said that after the death of Nehru he refused to fight against Morarjibhai directly. However Kamaraj and his friends assured him that  eventuality will not arise for the same. Hence they brought the proposal of  consensus in order to avoid direct fight between both of them. It was also good proposal wherein  Kamaraj and his friends can do good amount of manipulations even. That is how they managed to make Lalbahadur as Prime Minister.

              
                                                                                  One another inside  story may be known to very few, wherein Lalbahadur will  also give away Prime Ministership to Indira Gandhi after some time. This is because Lalbahdur was the most reliable politician for Nehru family. Lalbahadur Shastri made then Indira Gandhi a Minister of Information in the cabinet which was not of liking of Indira Gandhi. Thereafter it is a history that Lalbahadur became more strong and popular after war with Pakistan. This made Lalbahadur position more sustainable and strong which was not in the fevour of Indira Gandhi. Hence when he died in Tashkent lots of speculations were raised in the political circles.  Even Lalbahadur family also raised doubt about it. This is because Russia was more inclined to Indira Gandhi then Lalbahadur Shastri.  In short Lalbahadur was Honest, Simple,  but was also loyal politician to ambitious Nehru Family.
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