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Lal Bahadur Shastri
Date of Birth: October 2, 1904
Date of Death: January 11, 1966
Place of Birth: Mughalsarai, U.P
Prime Minister of India
Tenure Order: 2nd Prime Minister
Political party: Indian National Congress
Took Office: June 9, 1964
Left Office: January 11, 1966
Predecessor: Gulzarilal Nanda
Successor: Gulzarilal Nanda

Lal Bahadur Shastri (Hindi लालबहादुर शास्त्री) (October 2, 1904 - January 11, 1966) was the second permanent Prime Minister of independent India and a significant figure in the struggle for independence.

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Early life and freedom struggle

Shashtriji was born in Mughalsarai (also spelt as Moghalsarai), in United Province (now Uttar Pradesh). To take part in the non-cooperation movement of Mahatma Gandhi in 1921,



he began studying at the nationalist, Kashi Vidyapeeth in Kashi, and upon completion, he was given the title Shastri, or Scholar, Doctor at Kashi Vidyapeeth in 1926. He spent almost nine years in jail in total, mostly after the start of the Satyagraha movement in 1940, he was imprisoned until 1946 ehru" title="Jawaharlal Nehru">Jawaharlal Nehru | Maulana Azad | C. Azad | Rajaji | M. A. Ansari | Rajendra Prasad | Bhagat Singh | Purushottam Das Tandon | More..
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