Honesty is the core value of Lal Bahadur Shastri.
By Er Taraprasad Mishra
Jajpur, Octo 2 : Honesty is the core value of Lal Bahadur Shastri. Everyone in India loved him the most. He was born on the 2nd of October in Varanasi. His mother’s name was Ramdulhari, and his father’s name was Sharada Prasad Srivastava.
His father was a school teacher and died of the plague. After his death of his father, his mother took care of him and his two sisters to her parent’s house.Everyone knows that Lal Bahadur Shastri is one of the prominent leaders in India.
Not only Indians but also the whole world respects him a lot. You must have heard about him someday and somehow. Lal Bahadur Shastri has been a person whose personality is impossible to explain in a few words. He can be the best inspiration for many people in India.
Especially people who involved in politics might respect him. Now, check out the paragraphs on Lal Bahadur Shastri in this article. You can understand why people respect him.
Lal Bahadur Shastri was a great political leader. Also, Shastri was a famous freedom fighter of India. He is a famous person and known as the second Prime Minister after India got Independence. Lal Bahadur Shastri served as the Minister of the Home Affairs, Minister of the External Affairs and Minister of Railways. The whole nation was on the path of development under Lal Bahadur Shastri’s leadership. Lal Bahadur Shastri was much fond of Mahatma Gandhi’s ideologies.
He served the nation and never let his truth decline even after India Independence. He was a true follower of ‘Simple Living High Thinking.’ For that, the whole world admired him. Lal Bahadur Shastri was one of the famous persons in India.
He was born on the 2nd of October 1904 in India. Shastri was the youngest child for his parents. His family members used to address him by the name ‘Nanhe.’ It is believed that Lal Bahadur Shastri was a true Gandhian.
Lal Bahadur Shastri was the only person who didn’t agree with Gandhi’s slogan ‘Do or Die.’ It ignited the revolution that spread throughout India. Everyone in India was motivated and had become their inspiration. However, Lal Bahadur Shastri changed Gandhi’s slogan to ‘Don’t Die, Kill.’ Lal Bahadur Shastri was close to Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru.
It is believed that Lal Bahadur Shastri was a master of simplicity and honest personality. He died in the year 1966. He achieved the ‘Bharat Ratna ‘ award after he passed away. At present, politics has become of the sources and also the house of corruption.
Shastri gave the slogan ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan.’ It made everyone in India united together. People celebrate his death anniversary as ‘Lal Bahadur Shastri Smriti Divas.’ We celebrate the birth anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri as Shastri Jayanti.
Lal Bahadur Shastri was a great personality in India. He showed his active participation in all the movements of India Independence. Some of the important events he participated are the Quit India Movement, Salt Movement, and the Non-Cooperation Movement.
He had in prison for participating in these movements. People in India respected and admired him the most for his simple and honest life. It is the reason why they chose him as the Prime Minister of India. He also made many changed in society after being appointed as the Home Minister and Foreign Minister of India. Lal Bahadur Shastri became India PM in the year 1964.
At that time, people in India were living in poverty. The main aim of Lal Bahadur Shastri is to stop the increase in prices for the food items. He also aimed the food to be available for everyone in the nation. There are many chronic shortages of food during his ministry.
Although he was a man of wit, he requested everyone to leave their one-time email of the day. Thus, the demand for food for poor people fulfilled. Indians welcomed his idea and he also left his one-time meal for a few months. During his ministry, he started many schemes to increase production and demand in India.
It proved the benefit for the farmers. He always remained in every heard of Indians. Lal Bahadur Shastri got a sense of patriotism from one teacher named ‘Nishkameshwar Prasad Mishra. He was a very patriotic person and influenced his teacher. He went to prison when he was in the tenth standard. He completed his Bachelor’s in Philosophy and got the title of ‘Vidyapeeth. He showed a rare quality of courage and determination during his ministry.
He gave a slogan named ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan.’ After he died, he was awarded the ‘Bharat Ratna.’ Thus, a memorial ‘Vijay Ghat’ was built for him in New Delhi. He was known for his honesty and simplicity in India.
He joined the National Congress and went to jail for two and a half years. He participated in many events and movements. He was very close to Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawahar Nehru. When he was studying his Degree, he delivered many speeches on Gandhi.
He became one of the loyal followers of Gandhi. After India got Independence, he became the Minister of Police and Transport in UP. He brought many changes during his ministry, like allowing women to work, using water jets to disperse crowds, etc.
He worked as the PM in India from the year 1964 to 1966. Lal Bahadur Shastri served as PM for a short period. He died at Tashkent when he was there for signing the peace treaty to stop the India-Pakistan war. His cause of death is still a mystery for the whole world.
Lal Bahadur Shastri is known as the Man of Peace. He is famous as the second prime minister of independent India. He is also remembered for composing the slogan of “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan” (which means ‘hail the soldiers and the farmers’).
Let us learn more about the life of this illustrious personality of Indian history. Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on the 2nd of October in 1904 in Mughalsarai of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. His father was Sharada Prasad Shrivastava and his mother was named Ramdulari Devi. Lal Bahadur Shastri was a student in the East Central Railway Inter College in Mughalsarai and Varanasi.
In 1926 he successfully completed his graduation from the Kashi Vidyapeeth. As a part of his Graduation degree award, he was given the title of “Shastri” which loosely translates to “Scholar” in English. Somehow this degree began to be used as a part of his name.
From a very young life, Lal Bahadur Shastri was inspired by the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi. Following the footsteps of his idol, he wanted to work for the uplift of the weak and poor on society. He thus became a life member of the Servants of the People Society also known as the Lok Sevak Mandal which was established by Lala Lajpat Rai.
During the 1920s, Lal Bahadur Shastri started to actively contribute to the independence struggle. He was an active participant in the non-cooperation movement. His contribution had such effect that the British were forced to put him behind bars for some time.
Undeterred by this, in 1930, he participated in the Salt Satyagraha. For this movement, the East India Company sentenced him to two years of imprisonment. Even a prison sentence of 2 years could not diminish his zeal. In 1937 he joined the parliamentary Board of U.P as the Organizing Secretary.
After Mahatma Gandhi issued the Quit India Speech in 1942, many of the top leaders of the country, including Lal Bahadur Shastri was imprisoned. He was released after 4 years in 1946. Even when in prison he did not stop reading books and he became very fluent with works of western philosophers, revolutionaries and social reforms.
In 1947, he became the minister of Police and Transportation. Due to his amazing contribution to the sector he was reappointed for the said post in 1957. In 1951, he was appointed the General Secretary of the AIC (All India Congress). In 1952 he was elected as the Rajya Sabha representative of UP. In 1955 he was appointed the Railway Minister. During his tenure, he made revolutionary changes in the Indian railway system.
In 1961 he was appointed the Home Minister. There he made remarkable changes to stop corruption. Finally, on 9th June of 1964, he was appointed the Prime Minister of India.
Since childhood, Lal Bahadur Shastri was very honest and laborious. Lal Bahadur Shastri was graduated with a first-class degree from the Kashi Vidyapeeth in 1926 then he was given the title Shastri Scholar. Lal Bahadur Shastri acquired virtues like boldness, love of adventure, patience, self-control, courtesy, and selflessness in his childhood.
In order to participate actively in the freedom movement, Lal Bahadur Shastri compromised even with his studies. Lal Bahadur Shastri got married to Lalita Devi. And both Lal Bahadur Shastri and his wife blessed with 6 children. The name of their children was Kusum, Hari Krishna, Suman, Anil, Sunil, and Ashok. Lal Bahadur Shastri was also known for his simplicity, patriotism, and honesty.
India lost a great leader. He had given the talent and integrity to India. His death was still a mystery. Lal Bahadur Shastri had political associations is Indian National Congress. He had the political ideology such as nationalist, liberal, right-wing. Lal Bahadur Shastri is a Hinduism religion. He was always self-sustenance and self-reliance as the pillars to build a strong nation.
Jai Jawaan Jai Kisaan is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language biographical drama film by Milan Ajmera, titled after the popular slogan by Shastri it portrays his entire life from birth to death where he is portrayed by Akhilesh Jain.
Lal Bahadur Shastri’s Death, a 2018 television documentary film by Jyoti Kapur Das reconstructs his death and covers various conspiracy theories around it, including interviews with his son Sunil Shastri. A film titled The Tashkent Files (2019), directed by Vivek Agnihotri revolves around the mystery of the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri.
