Lal Bahadur Shastri(2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was the Second Prime Minister of Bharat.One of the first challenges he faced was the provocation & tensionat Indo-Pak border which led to the inevitable i.e A war against Pakistan. When Pakistan army crossed the International border with 100 battle tanks, Shastri surprised everybody by taking the challenge upfront and asked his army chief to retaliate with full force. During the independence day speech, he said "Hathiyaron ka jawab hathiyaron se dange. Hamara desh rahega to hamara tiranga rahega"
Farmers got their due respect & importance. A series of reforms by Shastri helped them participate in the Green Revolution & Shastri did everything possible to motivate them including the conceptualization & popularization of the slogan "Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan". Also, he had cleaned up his backyard & converted it into a mini farmland where he grew his own crops. When news of the "Prime Minister growing his own crops" reached the common man & farmer, he became a role model and a source of inspiration for the nation which had all the resources to solve it's food problems but was lacking a political will & a sense of direction which was solved by Shastri. That is one of the reasons he was called "Bharat's farmer PM".
The next major challenge was that of food crisis. Bharat was facing a severe drought situation in 1965 & literally "begging" for grains from USA. This was the time when Shastri took up the challenge upfront & created large teams of agricultural scientists & motivated them to come up with solutions. In the meantime, Shastri gave up one meal every day so that it could be given to the needy and motivated his countrymen also to do the same.
( hari krishnamurthy K. HARIHARAN)"'' When people hurt you Over and Over think of them as Sand paper.They Scratch & hurt you, but in the end you are polished and they are finished. ''
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