Speech on Lal Bahadur Shastri

Lal Bahadur Shastri was an Indian politician and sixth home minister of India before becoming the second prime minister of India. He was the lead character behind the promotion of the White revolution and the Green revolution in India. His contribution was immense to India's independence struggle. He gave the slogan "Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan", which became immensely popular during the war. He was deeply influenced by the thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda and Annie Besant.

10 Lines Speech On Lal Bahadur Shastri

1. Lal Bahadur Shastri was born in present-day Mughalsarai on 2nd October 1904. His mother's name was Ramdulari Devi and his father was Sharada Prasad Srivastava.
2. He was the president of Lok Sevak Dal, along with handling important responsibilities in Indian National Congress.
3. He became the Railway minister in 1951, then he was promoted to home minister of India, going on to become the second Prime Minister of India.
4. He was the Prime Minister during the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war, during which he gave the slogan of "Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan".
5. He dropped his caste-driven surname of "Srivastava", and also worked for the upliftment of "Harijans".
6. He began taking part in the Indian Independence Movement in the 1920s.
7. He graduated from the Kashi Vidyapeeth in Varanasi, and was given the title of "Shastri", but it got stuck with him, and became a part of his name.
8. He spent one year in prison for supporting India's struggle for Independence.
9. His wife's name was Lalita Devi, and he had four sons and two daughters.
10. He died in mysterious circumstances, the day following the signing of the Tashkent Peace Treaty in 1966, on 11th January, 1966.

Short Speech on Lal Bahadur Shastri:-

Early Life | He was born in a Kayastha family on 2 October 1904, in present-day Mughalsarai in Uttar Pradesh.He grew up at his maternal grandfather's place in Mughalsarai after his father died due to the bubonic plague. He was able to get a good education due to his being a studious student. Even though his family was not linked to the Independence Struggle in any way, due to one of his teachers being highly patriotic, he too began to take interest in India's independence movement. He even dropped out of high school to take part in the Non- Cooperation Movement.

Political Career | After Mahatma Gandhi's call, Lal Bahadur Shastri became a part of the Indian National Congress in 1928. He was an elected representative from the United Provinces during 1937 - 1946. He was also the state minister in the government of Uttar Pradesh. In 1951, he became the general secretary of the All India Congress Committee. He served as Minister of Railways, Minister of Commerce and Industry, and Minister of Home Affairs, before becoming the Prime Minister of India, after Jawaharlal Nehru's death in 1964.

1965 War and His Death | He led India during the 1965 Indo-Pak war when Pakistan claimed half of the Kutch peninsula and got into retaliation with Indian forces. A United Nations-mandated ceasefire ended the war on 23 September 1965.

On 10 January 1966, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Pakistani President Ayub Khan signed the Tashkent Peace Treaty. He died mysteriously on 11th January 1966 in Tashkent.

Long Speech On Lal Bahadur Shastri

Early Days and His Family | Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on 2nd October 1904, to Sharada Prasad Srivastava and Ramdulari Devi in Mughalsarai, which is in present-day Uttar Pradesh. His father died when he was just 18 months old, and thus, he lived the rest of his life in his maternal grandfather's home. They lived in a joint family system. He received a better education than some of his cousins, due to his being a prized student. He got enrolled in Harishchandra High School in Varanasi. He married Lalita Devi of Mirzapur in 1928, they had four sons and two daughters.

Independence Activism | After getting influenced by his high school teacher, he participated in the Non-cooperation movement and even got detained for it, but he was released since he was a minor during that time. J.B. Kripalani saw the need for young activists to be educated, and thus, founded a nationalist institution named Kashi Vidyapeeth, from which Lal Bahadur Shastri got his bachelor's degree in philosophy and ethics in 1925, thus, was conferred with the title "Shastri". He joined Lok Sevak Mandal and worked for the upliftment of Harijans in Muzaffarpur. In 1928, he became active in Indian National Congress and he spent a year of his life in prison for supporting Mahatma Gandhi's satyagraha.

Political Achievements | He was the Minister of Police and Transport in 1957 and appointed women conductors for the first time. He was also the one who ordered the police to use jet sprays in the place of lathis to disperse the crowd. During his prime ministership, he faced anti-Hindi agitation in the southern states, and thus, assured them that English would be used as an official language. He also promoted White Revolution in India, under which the milk supply was to be increased manifold in India, he supported the Amul milk co-operative board and created the National Dairy Development Board. He also promoted the Green revolution in India in 1965, leading to an immense increase in food grain production in the areas of Punjab, Haryana and West Uttar Pradesh. He was also responsible for setting up the Food Corporation of India in 1964. He continued on his path of non-alignment but came closer to the Soviets. He even maintained relations with the military government of Myanmar.

Pakistan War | He faced military challenges during India - Pakistan war of 1965, after Pakistan laid claim on half of the Kutchh peninsula. He gave the famous slogan of "Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan'', during this war, and also urged the people to give up a one-time meal to fight food shortages happening across the country, to which people's response was commendable, even the restaurant owners shut their restaurants once a week. He signed the peace treaty named as Tashkent Declaration, with the then Pakistani President Mohammad Ayub Khan on 10 January 1966, following which he died mysteriously in Tashkent on 11 January 1966.

Shastri was a secularist. He inaugurated the Plutonium Reprocessing Plant on the suggestions of Homi J. Bhabha, he also went ahead with the development of nuclear weapons, and he also inaugurated the National Institute of Technology in Allahabad (now Prayagraj). He was posthumously awarded Bharat Ratna and a memorial was built in his memory in Delhi named "Vijay Ghat".