Advocate Bikram Singh Sidhu, a Social Worker in Ludhiana pays tribute to the Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Ji on his death anniversary Shastri Ji by shedding light on their life. Bikram Singh Sidhu said Shastri Ji inspires our country today with simple life and patriotism.
Lal Bahadur Shastri was an Indian politician who served as the second Prime Minister of India. He promoted the White Revolution – a public mission to enhance 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 also developed the Green Revolution in India in 1965. This prompted an expansion in food grain production, particularly in Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh.
Shastri Ji was born to Sharada Prasad Srivastava and Ramdulari Devi in Mughalsarai on 2 October 1904, imparting his birthday to Mahatma Gandhi. He studied in East Central Railway Inter college and Harish Chandra High School, which he left to join the non-cooperation movement. He worked for the improvement of the Harijans at Muzaffarpur and dropped his caste determined the last name of "Srivastava". Shastri's deliberations were affected by finding out about Swami Vivekananda, Gandhi, and Annie Besant. Profoundly intrigued and affected by Gandhi, he joined the Indian freedom development during the 1920s. He served as the president of Servants of the People Society (Lok Sevak Mandal), established by Lala Lajpat Rai, and held prominent positions in Indian National Congress. Following freedom in 1947, he joined the Indian government and became one of Prime Minister Nehru's key committee colleagues, first as Railways Minister (1951–56), and afterward in various other outstanding positions, including the Home Minister.
He acquired a reputation as a capable mediator after his appointment to the powerful post of a minister for home affairs in 1961. After three years, on Jawaharlal Nehru's disease, Shastri was selected minister without portfolio, and after Nehru's passing, he became PM in June 1964.
Shastri was condemned for neglecting to manage India's financial issues, however, he won extraordinary fame for his solidness on the flare-up of threats with neighboring Pakistan (1965) over the disputed Kashmir area. He passed on of heart failure after marking a "no-war" contract with Pres. Ayub Khan of Pakistan and was prevailing as PM by Indira Gandhi, Nehru's girl.
He drove the nation during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965. His trademark "Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan" ("Hail to the warrior; Hail to the rancher") turned out to be well known during the war. The war officially finished with the Tashkent Agreement on 10 January 1966; he died the next day, still in Tashkent, with the reason for his passing in question; it was accounted for to be a heart failure, however, his family was not pleased with the proffered reason. He was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna.
Lal Bahadur Shastri came to be known as a man of extraordinary integrity and competence. Humble, open-minded, with extraordinary internal strength and determination, he was a man of the individuals who understood their language. He was also a man of vision who drove the nation towards progress. Lal Bahadur Shastri was profoundly affected by the political teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. "Difficult work is equivalent to prayer," he once stated, in accents significantly suggestive of his Master. In the immediate custom of Mahatma Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri spoke to the best in Indian culture.
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