Former Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri was a leader with a clean image. His personality was full of simplicity. Along with this, he was a person of sweet language.
After the death of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Shastri ji was the Prime Minister of the country for about one and a half years. He had proved his capability in front of the whole world. It was the misfortune of the country that he died mysteriously while he was the Prime Minister.
India Won The 1965 War Due To Lal Bahadur Shastri
After the death of the country’s first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri took command of the country on 9 June 1964. He remained the Prime Minister of India only for about 18 months. India won the 1965 war with Pakistan when Lal Bahadur Shastri was the Prime Minister. During this period Ayub Khan was the President of Pakistan.
After the death of Pandit Nehru, Pakistan had a meeting with Shastri ji in the year 1964. After this meeting, there was a meeting between Shastri ji and Ayub Khan, in which, seeing the simplicity of Shastri, Ayub Khan felt that he could forcibly capture Kashmir from India.
What is the secret of Tashkent?
- The story of Tashkent begins after the war between India and Pakistan stops.
- After this war of 1965, Tashkent was chosen for talks between India and Pakistan. Alexei Kozygin, the then Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, had offered a compromise. 10 January 1966 was fixed as the day for the agreement in Tashkent.
- Under this agreement, both countries had to withdraw their respective armies from the border by 25 February 1966.
- After the signing of the agreement, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri died under mysterious circumstances on the night of 11 January.
Mysteries related to death
It is said that Lal Bahadur Shastri ji was under pressure after the agreement was reached in Tashkent. Experts say that Shastri was being criticized in India for giving back Haji Pir and Thithwal to Pakistan. Senior journalist Kuldeep Nayyar was Shastri’s media advisor at that time. It was he who informed the family about Shastri’s demise.
Nayyar had told in an interview that Shastri’s wife was also very angry with the return of Haji Peer and Thithwal to Pakistan. He even refused to talk to Shastri on the phone, which hurt Shastri a lot. She along with the nation was shocked by Shastri’s death the next day. It is claimed that Shastri ji was killed by poisoning, while some people say that he died due to a heart attack.