Lal Bahadur Shastri


Lal Bahadur Shastri ,October 1904160January 1966 was the Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a leader of the Indian National Congress party.

Shastri was born at the house of his maternal grandparents in Mughalsarai, Varanasi as Lal Bahadur Shrivastava, into a Hindu Kayastha family that had traditionally been employed as Highly administrators and civil servants. Shastris paternal ancestors had been in the service of the zamindar of Ramnagar near Varanasi and Shastri lived there for the first one year of his life. Shastris father, Sharada Prasad Shrivastava, was a school teacher who later became a clerk in the revenue office at Allahabad, while his mother, Ramdulari Devi, was the daughter of Munshi Hazari Lal, the headmaster and English teacher at a railway school in Mughalsarai. Shastri was the second child and eldest son of his parents he had an elder sister, Kailashi Devi .

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