Lal Bahadur Shastri Birth Day 2nd Oct 2014 Very few people know that it is the birth anniversary of Late Lal Bahadur Shastri as well; Except for those of like my father who grew up in the sixties and seventies, Lal Bahadur shashtri was a figure whom we knew little about. He was the little man with iron in his constitution, the man who succeeded Jawaharlal Nehru, honest to the core, the man who won the 1965 War with Pakistan. In a manner we should call this day as Gandhi jayanti as well as Shastri Jayanti. It is pity that the people, who remember and celebrate Gandhi Jayanthi, forget that the same day is the birth day of our former prime Minister - a humble man. Humble Man Lal Bahadur Shrivastav Shastri was the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement, Who faced immense hardship and suffering in the heroic struggle for independence and who led India through the critical years after succeeding Nehru, who concerned about the common man of India and gave the slogan Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan. Lal Bahadur Shastri was the first person in India who received the Bharat Ratna award. More than thirty years of dedicated service were behind Lal Bahadur Shastri. In the course of this period, he came to be known as a man of great integrity and competence. Humble, tolerant, with great inner strength and resoluteness, he was a man of the people who understood their language. He was also a man of vision who led the country towards progress. Guru GandhiJi Lal Bahadur Shastri was deeply influenced by the political teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. Hard work is equal to prayer, he once said, in accents profoundly reminiscent of his Master. In the direct tradition of Mahatma Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri represented the best in Indian culture. No desire for Money Lal Bahadur Shastri never felt desire for money, a person who was down to earth, a real son of the soil, and stands for austerity, simplicity and consensus. He was an exemplar of humility and simplicity. His grounding was from the grassroots level. He was small in stature and soft spoken. There was always a smile in his face and never praised himself. On the contrary he used to say I am an ordinary man and not a bright man. He never aspired for power or worked for it. Yet power and authority came in search of him. There was not the slightest sign of pride or authority in him. He acquired the qualities of honesty, simplicity, firmness, love of adventure, patience and skill in administration. He was a practical man too. He showed by his work that though he was tender like a flower he could be hard as diamond. He strongly believed the laws of the land should be changed because the British formed them to rule over India. He did make an attempt by constituting the administrative reforms commission and made Morarji Desai its chairman. But after he died the idea was shelved. Though his death is a mystery I learned that he died of with heart attack. Devotion and efficiency Two qualities, which the leader of any nation must have, are devotion and efficiency. Lal Bahadur had both the qualities in a large measure. He would not swerve from his aim, come what may when the people of India Were fighting for freedom he brushed aside all thought of personal happiness and plunged into the freedom struggle. His daughters death, his sons illness, poverty - none of these made him swerve from his selection path. Even when he became a minister and later, the Prime Minister he was never attracted to a life of luxury and comfort. Lal Bahadur Shastri was a simple man with great personality He is one and only Indian PM who was from humble family. He led his life with great simplicity and honesty and was a great source of inspiration for all the countrymen. He filled the four corners of the world with the fame of India. Shastriji who represented a certain value system is more relevant today than before because a majority of us today have no value systems. He was a man concerned about the common man of India. Can these values return to this country? I dont think so. Although shastri is not with us but his principal and simplicity always show the right way of life. We should follow such principals. Really he is my favorite great leader. His life was noble, loving and mainly in the highest sense! He is my most favorite prime minister. ------------------------ My main purpose of posting is To remind all of us about this great man, a gem of icon Lal Bahadur Shastri. Let the present generation and future generation should not forget this gem of the nation and feel proud of being an Indian where such great men were born. I am posting because I did not want us, we the educated people, to forget a great leader like shastri is hard to find and he is rarest of the rare, who took moral responsibility for their actions. If only people like him would have been alive, India will shine like a Dhruva star. At present, leaders like him need for India for his honest and simplicity such a man stands of like a beacon: but very few people will follow such beacons in fact simple honesty is ridiculed today.
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 06:51:55 +0000
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