Lal Bahadur Shastri

Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru passed away on May 27, 1964. The country was plunged in grief. A gloom descended on the people. Nehru was a towering leader whose popularity was unprece- dented. No one could fill the void left by him.An uncertain future stared into the face of the nation. No clear No. 2 […]

The first general elections were held in India in 1952. India had adopted British form of Parliamentary system.Lal Bahadur Shastri was appointed one of the General Secretaries of the Congress to prepare the party for the elections. Shastri was dealing with the selection of the candidates, publicity and the electioneering. He himself did not contest

In 1945 Shastri was released from jail as were other leaders. A busy time was in the offing. The Congress required to be reorganised. Provincial Council elections were announced which were to be fought on party basis. The British had decided to grant India freedom.The country was to be divided in two parts.Pundit Govind Ballabh

As Shastri became more active Congressman and joined protests or agitations spending time in jails became his fate.The freedom movement was intensifying. In 1930, Gandhi started ‘Salt Satyagraha’. He marched to a place called ‘Dandi’ and made salt to break the British law against salt making. Lal Bahadur Shastri took part in the Satyagraha. He

The members and the leaders of the ‘Servants of the People Society’ were members of the Congress party on the political front. So, most of them were serving the dual functions. Lal Bahadur was a functionary of the society and the Congress party as well. The founder of the society Lala Lajpat Rai was a

Like Lal Bahadur Lalita was also a very simple person of no vanity. She was traditional and religious. Lalita was all what humble Lal Bahadur richly deserved, a person who would become his domestic security and the moral strength.There was no trace of the arrogance and ego of the rich upbringing in her.When she was

Ramdulari was happy that finally her Nanhe had grown up into a responsible young man who had dedicated himself into the cause of the nation. Sometimes she wished her son had gotten into a profitable business or secured a job with reasonable salary.The Congress party and the freedom politics was big sacrifices and little money.But

Misraji had sown the seeds of patriotism and anti-British feeling in the mind of Lal Bahadur too like other students. Lal Bahadur’s mind was more receptive to such ideas than others.The British rule in India was a tragedy and merciless exploitation of Indian masses. His own story was similar to that of his country. His

Thus, Lal Bahadur went to Benaras to live on the magnanimity of his boastful uncle. Once there, Lal Bahadur realised how cold the outside world was. In this uncle’s house there was no warmth or love like what he was used to at his maternal grand parent’s house. The uncle was well off. The family

Lal Bahadur had several experiences that shaped his mindset. One day all the boys while coming form school passed by a guava orchard. The boys looked at the ripening guavas. The fruits were green mainly with odd ones in various shades between green and cream colour. The boys would not mind having bites on the

On October 2, 1904, a son was born to Ramdulari Devi, a house wife of a lower middle class family when she was in Ram Nagar, a place near Benaras in U.P. This newborn grew up to become Lal Bahadur Shastri, one of the most respected and admired prime ministers of India.The father of the