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Today October 02nd - 2nd Prime Minister of India, Late Sri Lal Bhadhur SASTRY's Birday.
Debates may rage on who was India’s best Prime Minister, but there can be no question of who has been its most unjustly forgotten Prime Minister: Lal Bahadur Shastri.
Shastri was both a disciple of Gandhi and an admirer of Nehru, but he was also his own man.Lal Bahadur Shastri was a man of some considerable achievement;His conduct during the 1965 War made Shastri a hero—and justly so.
Lal Bahadur Shastri died on the night of 10/11 January 1966, in the Uzbek city of Tashkent, hours after signing a peace agreement with Pakistan. He spent but nineteen months in office, enough to show himself to advantage as a war leader. That, if at all, is how he is remembered today.
But had he been lucky to enjoy a full term in office his legacy might have been more wide-ranging. For he had interesting and innovative ideas in the fields of economic and foreign policy, among much else. He was keen to get rid of the sloth and waste in government, and to induct talent from outside—one of his suggestions, unfortunately never implemented, was to have top scientists inducted as Cabinet Ministers.
THE FORGOTTEN PRIME MINISTER, The Hindu « ::Welcome to Ramachandra Guha.in::
Picture Source: Google
Debates may rage on who was India’s best Prime Minister, but there can be no question of who has been its most unjustly forgotten Prime Minister: Lal Bahadur Shastri.
Shastri was both a disciple of Gandhi and an admirer of Nehru, but he was also his own man.Lal Bahadur Shastri was a man of some considerable achievement;His conduct during the 1965 War made Shastri a hero—and justly so.
Lal Bahadur Shastri died on the night of 10/11 January 1966, in the Uzbek city of Tashkent, hours after signing a peace agreement with Pakistan. He spent but nineteen months in office, enough to show himself to advantage as a war leader. That, if at all, is how he is remembered today.
But had he been lucky to enjoy a full term in office his legacy might have been more wide-ranging. For he had interesting and innovative ideas in the fields of economic and foreign policy, among much else. He was keen to get rid of the sloth and waste in government, and to induct talent from outside—one of his suggestions, unfortunately never implemented, was to have top scientists inducted as Cabinet Ministers.
THE FORGOTTEN PRIME MINISTER, The Hindu « ::Welcome to Ramachandra Guha.in::
Picture Source: Google
