How did lal bahaddur respond to Pakistan attack
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At a time when we are led by a prime minister who believes above all in self-publicity, our thoughts go out to a diminutive and self-effacing man who once occupied the same office – Lal Bahadur Shastri.
Shastri served as prime minister for just 18 months, and in that brief tenure, left a memorable imprint on the country as a politician, administrator and war leader. Many in the present generation don’t know he authored the slogan, “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan,” which captured the idea that peasants (and their welfare) are as integral to the security of the country as soldiers.
He was a seasoned freedom fighter who spent a total of nine years in jail. After independence, he held various ministerial and party positions. Apart from being general secretary of the Congress, he held the railways, transport and commerce portfolios. In 1961, following the death of Govind Ballabh Pant, he became Union home minister.
In a world full of hollow men, Shastri was the genuine article. He displayed his moral calibre when he resigned from office in the wake of the 1956 Ariyalur train accident, in which 142 people were killed. That act still reverberates in the country. Hard-working but with a weak disposition, he suffered heart attacks in 1958 and again in June 1964, shortly after taking office as prime minister.
In 1963, Nehru and Congress president K. Kamaraj decided that six prominent ministers would resign and devote themselves to organisational work. The goal was to bring in fresh blood into the Cabinet, as well as send a signal to the electorate. This was at a time when the Congress’s political supremacy was unchallenged.
Among those who left government were Shastri. He actually insisted that he be in the list, though Nehru did not want him there. But fate took an far more dramatic turn.
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