New Delhi: Lal Bahadur Shastri, who was Prime Minister of India from 1964 to 1966, died on January 11, 1966.
His sudden death is one of the most talked-about things about him. Shastri was born on October 2nd, 1904 into a poor family and was interested in India’s struggle for freedom from an early age.
Mahatma Gandhi made a big impression on him and he decided to drop out to join the Non-Cooperation Movement. Known as a man of discipline, integrity, and extreme willpower, Shastri supported the cause of the common man and the peasant.
Together with many others, he gave the slogan “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan”. After independence, he even held various departments in the Union cabinet.
Let’s see why today, 56 years after his death, people are still talking about the way he died. Shastri is said to have suffered a serious heart attack that resulted in his death in Tashkent, Russia, where he signed a peace agreement between India and Pakistan after the 1965 war.
The government refuses to release documents on his death. This caused people to come up with their own conspiracy theories about Shastri’s death, but the government remained silent.
The son of Lal Bahadur Shastri and chief chairman of Congress, Anil Shastri, called on the government to release all documents related to his father’s death, including the results of the Raj Narain Committee formed in 1977 to investigate the mysterious death of. to examine the head. However, his efforts were unsuccessful.
In 2019 a film entitled “The Archives of Tashkent” by Vivek Agnihotri was supposed to reveal the secret of his death.
The film starred Shweta Basu Prasad, Mithun Chakraborty, Naseeruddin Shah, and Pankaj Tripathi. Agnihotri found it strange that India, the largest democracy in the world, has no information or documents to uncover the secret of Shastri’s death.
Agnihotri is reported to have said: “This issue has been raised in Parliament for the past 50 years and yet we are trying to find out the truth.
Picking up the glove trying to find out the truth, I submitted RTI, but I was shocked. The RTI said there was no information ”. As we witness the 56th anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri’s death, we still have no answers to questions about his death.