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Podcast: News and Views
Episode: What Triggered Conspiracies Around Lal Bahadur Shastri’s Death?
Description: In 1965, Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India, immortalised the India of his times with the slogan, “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan”. There was a scarcity of wheat in the country and Shastri raised this slogan as a call for soldiers and farmers to defend India and also increase the production of food grains.
Not long after that his stint was cut short with his sudden untimely death on 11 January 1966, in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, which was then a part of the Soviet Union.
Even many decades after, the circumstances of his death are debated. And on h...