We at the Su-Niti News wish the most humble and simple Leader- Lal Bahadur Shastri Ji a very Happy Birthday and bow down to pay our Homage. He lived for the welfare of our nation.
Shastri Ji, an Indian politician who served as the second Prime Minister of India, promoted the White Revolution - a national campaign to increase the production and supply of milk - by supporting the Amul milk co-operative of Anand, Gujarat and creating the National Dairy Development Board.
Underlining the need to boost India's food production, Shastri Ji also promoted the Green Revolution in India in 1965. This led to an increase in food grain production, especially in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. He was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna.
He led the country successfully during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965. His slogan "Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan" ("Hail to the soldier; Hail to the farmer") became very popular during the war. The war formally ended with the Tashkent Agreement on 10 January 1966. The next day he was found dead. The Ministry of External Affairs said that no post-mortem was conducted in the USSR. However deep Blue spots and cut marks were found on his abdomen.
Two Witnesses were scheduled to depose a parliamentary body in 1977:-
- One was RN Chugh, Shastri's Doctor Who accompanied him to Tashkent. But when He was travelling to Delhi by road to testify before the committee, he was hit by a truck and died.
- The second was Ram Nath, Shastri's personal servant who was also present on the day of his death. Ram Nath met Shastri's widow before the deposition. According to family members he told her, "I've been carrying this burden too long. I will shed it today." Ram Nath left the residence to make his way to Parliament but then he was hit by a moving vehicle. His legs were crushed and he lost his memory.
Shastri Ji once said: "I'm not as simple as I look."
[We regret that The Indian Government released no information about his death and the media then was kept silent. The possible existence of a conspiracy was covered in India by the 'Outlook' magazine.
In 2009, A query was posed by Anuj Dhar, author of CIA's Eye on South Asia, under the Right to Information Act to declassify a document supposedly related to Shastri's death, but the Prime Minister's Office refused to oblige, reportedly citing that this could lead to harming of foreign relations, cause disruption in the country and cause breach of parliamentary privileges.]
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