Lal Bahadur Shastri

Lal Bahadur Shastri was the 2nd Prime Minister Of India from 9 June 1964 to 11 January 1966 and a leader of the Indian National Congress party.He was the Minister Of External Affairs from 9 June 1964 to 18 July 1964.He was the Minister of Home Affairs from 4 April 1961 to 29 August 1963.Shastri joined the Indian Independence Movement in the 1920s.He  was born on 2 October 1904 at Ramnagar,Varanasi,United Provinces,British Raj( now in Uttar Pradesh ) into a Kayastha family.His father,Sharada Prasad Srivastava was a school teacher, who later become a clerk in the Revenue Office at Allahabad.His father died when he was a year old.His mother, Ramdulari Devi, took him and his 2 sisters to her father Hazari Lal's house and settled down there.He become the hero following the victory in 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 was ended in the Tashkent Agreement of 10 January 1966.In 11 January 1966, he died in Tashkent,Soviet Union of a heart attack.




Contribution of Lal Bahadur Shastri was :-"Jai jawan Jai kisan"