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Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on 2nd October, 1904 at Mughalsarai, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh to Sharada Prasad Srivastava and Ramdulari Devi.
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Lal Bahadur Shastri ji's orignal name was Lal Bahadur Srivastava. But he dropped his surname since he was against the caste system.
In 1926, he got the title 'Shastri' in Kashi Vidyapeeth University as a mark of scholarly success.

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#LalBahadurShastri was 3 months old, he slipped out of his mother's arms into a cowherd's basket at the Ganga ghat. The cowherd, who had no children, took the child as a gift from God & took him home. He's parents lodged a complaint with the police, who traced and returned him.
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Today is Lal Bahadur Shastri Birthday
I always feel one of the greatest son of India and his contributions to India gets short changed as Oct 2nd is all about Mohan Das Gandhi
Nehru Gandy ensured we forgot everyone and only remember them
Gandy stayed in Aga Khan palace and acted as if he is so simple and poor
Once Sarojini Naidu said it cost lots of Money to keep Gandhi poo
And about Nehru the less said the better.
He lived like Maharaja on public money and no one asked where do you get that money from ?
In 1963 Ram Manohar Lohia published a pamphlet which said India spent Rs.25000 a day on royal life of Nehru while average indian lived on 3 anna per day (18.75 paisa)
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A humble tribute to this great soul. His political leadership during 1965 war will remain his biggest contribution to the nation. His decision to OK crossing IB saved us from a potential 4th Battle of Panipat.
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A deeper study of 1965 was will tell you that there was more to it than simply taking Kashmir under Op Gibraltar. It was the last push to undertake a massive re-organization of physical landscape of South Asia. There was a method to madness of 'having tea at Red Fort' statement.
I shudder to think what would've been the outcome had Nehru being the PM during 1965 war!
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1. Shastri Ji, considered caste system a social evil. That's Y, Shastri gave up his family name at an early age. It was only after joining the Kashi Vidyapeeth and after getting a degree in Philosophy, he received the epithet ‘Shastri’

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2.Shastri Ji also raised his voice against the dowry system and refused to accept anything from his wife’s family at his wedding. It was only after repeated requests from his father-in-law, he took a few meters of Khadi cloth as a wedding gift #LalBahadurShastriJayanti
3. Taking inspiration from Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Lal Bahadur Shastri gave up his studies to join the freedom movement in 1921

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#LalBahadurShastriJayanti #LalBahadurShastri A thread. I wrote in 2008

The Late Lal Bahadur Shastri, was also born on Oct. 2, in the year 1904 ( does anyone remember any centenery celebrations ??). However, he seems to have been given one of the shortest shrifts.
Born in the year 1904 in Mughalsarai, United Provinces, British India as Lal Bahadur Srivastava.

His father Sharada Prasad was a poor school teacher, who later became a clerk in the Revenue Office at Allahabad.
When Lal Bahadur was three months old, he slipped out of his mother's arms into a cowherd's basket at the ghats of the Ganges.

The cowherd, who had no children, took the child as a gift from God and took him home.
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