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Indian railway minister Lal Bahadur Shastri wanted to take political and moral responsibility for the accident and offered his resignation to prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. While it was not accepted after the 1956 Mahbubnagar train accident in September, it was accepted this time. [5] [6] He resigned on 7 December 1956. [3]
Indian railway minister Lal Bahadur Shastri wanted to take political responsibility for the accident and offered his resignation to prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, but he refused. After the 1956 Ariyalur train accident a similar accident about three months later, Shastri again offered his resignation and was accepted. [6] [7]
Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial run by the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Memorial Trust, is situated next to 10 Janpath his residence when he was prime minister, [73] at 1, Motilal Nehru Place, New Delhi. [74] One of the halls of residence of IIT Kharagpur is named after him as Lal Bahadur Shastri Hall of Residence. [75]
In the event of any emergency because of any cause such as the death or resignation of the president elected as above, the most senior general secretary discharges the routine functions of the president until the Working Committee appoints a provisional president pending the election of a regular president by the AICC. [2]
Gulzarilal Nanda (4 July 1898 – 15 January 1998) [1] [2] was an Indian politician and economist who specialised in labour issues.He was the Acting Prime Minister of India for two 13-day tenures following the deaths of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964 and Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966 respectively.
He handled the delicate post-war situation firmly and took several decisions to empower the armed forces and negotiated, along with Pandit Nehru, with China to end the hostilities. He also held the Defense portfolio in the Lal Bahadur Shastri Government during the Indo-Pakistan War of September 1965.
Nehru was succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri, whose 1 year 7-month term ended in his death in Tashkent, then in the USSR, where he had signed the Tashkent Declaration between India and Pakistan. [12] Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, succeeded Shastri in 1966 to become the country's first female prime minister. [13]
Sequeira visited New Delhi along other MLAs and impressed Nehru about the need of an opinion poll on this matter. However Nehru died before Parliament could take this decision and Lal Bahadur Shastri succeeded him as Prime Minister. A delegation consisting of MGP MLAs and Maharashtra's leaders went to New Delhi to convince him that a vote on ...