Prime Ministers Of India : Lal Bahadur Shastri

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 First Prime Minister of India was Jawahar Lal Nehru , But we have already covered a topic on him .

Story of Shastri  :

Lal Bahadur Shastri (18 July 1897 – 11 August 1966) was an Indian politician and a leader of the Indian independence movement, who served as the Prime Minister of India from 1962 until his death. He is widely known for having started the ""Swadeshi"" (self-reliance) campaign and headed the first non-Congress Indian government in independent India. Shastri was born in 1900 in Kheralu, Gaya district, Bihar, British India (presently India). After attending Almora in Oudh in 1907, he moved to Gaya, where he completed his matriculation. His elder brother Purna Chandra Shastri served as the Speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 1956 to 1957.



 Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, was Shastri's political mentor. The younger brother of both of them, Jayaprakash Narayan, was also a prominent politician. The dispute over the partition of India in 1947 led to riots across Bihar, forcing many of his family members to migrate to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, though Shastri remained in India. The former prime minister Nehru, being himself a Gujrati, nominated him as the Governor of Bihar. He became a member of the central government's Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) along with his friend Lal Krishna Advani and others. 

He then set up the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1925, and went on to guide the organisation as its "pracharak" (supreme leader). Shastri was the Chief Minister of Bihar from 1 July 1952 to 5 July 1956. His "Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan" (hail the soldier, hail the farmer) slogan created a national resonance. Shastri successfully used the slogan to gain popularity in the post-independence political atmosphere. He was the first leader from Bihar to win the largest seat share in any state elections in independent India. He became the Prime Minister of India on 25 July 1962 following the death of Jawaharlal Nehru. He was in office for the shortest period of three years and six months and his tenure ended after the cabinet's dissolution in June 1966. He was replaced by Indira Gandhi, who became the first and only woman to hold the post of the Prime Minister of India. Shastri died on 11 Jan 1966 .


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