Former Prime Minister Late Lal Bahadur Shastri was remembered on his birth anniversary on Tuesday in Tashkent where he breathed his last on January 11, 1966, after signing the Tashkent Accord with Pakistan.
The Chairman of the Mahalla Committee where the Shastri Memorial is situated, Indologists from Institute of Oriental Languages, children from the nearby Hindi school and staff of the Indian Embassy gathered at the Shastri Memorial in Tashkent and offered their tribute to the second Prime Minister of India in a simple but impressive ceremony, said a communication from the Indian mission in the Uzbek capital.
The Indian Ambassador, Gitesh Sarma, in his address on the occasion expressed his gratitude to the people of Tashkent for remembering Shastriji every year and said it showed the closeness between the people of India and Uzbekistan.
Lal Bahadur Shastri was not from Nehru and Gandhi family. We have been tuned to remember persons only from those family! Thanks for the people of Uzbekistan for remembering a great soul. He was responsible for re installing faith and confidence in the people of India.
I have enormous respect for Mr.Lal Bahadur Shastri who ulike present day politicians was scrupulously honest.
Lal Bahadur Shastri fired the AOC in C Western Command for bombing
Peshawar and winning the 1965 war (!).
and very few in india cared about him. all about gandhi on 2nd october, congress and india is so much obcessed with gandhi that
they have forgotten who else lived in india before and after gandhi.
Thanks for remembering Sri.Lal Bahadur Shastri,the simplest ever Prime Minister, India had. In the era of Gandhi's family hogging the whole lime light,and occupying national stage, the suave,though firm and committed leaders like Shastriji make us feel proud at.That they are less heard, and remembered in their own soil, is a sad state of affairs. Russia,the once land of socialism deserves all praise for cherishing and duly honouring the political values.
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