India celebrates its second Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri’s 116th birth anniversary today. Lal Bahadur Shastri shares his birthday with the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, whose sesquicentennial is also being celebrated all over the country.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and political leaders across the spectrum paid their tributes to the former Prime Minister at Vijay Ghat, New Delhi.
Born as Munshi Lal Bahadur Shastri on 2nd October, 1904 in Mughalsarai, UP, he was the youngest amongst his siblings born to mother Ram Dulari and MP Srivastava. Lal Bahadur Shastri had a hard childhood and educated himself while living in difficult circumstances. He used to swim to Kashi Vidyapeeth, who later conferred him with the title of Shastri, after seeing him master the intricacies of Sanskrit.
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