The death of the former Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri continues to be a mystery even after 55 years. Lal Bahadur Shastri died under suspicious circumstances in Tashkent on January 11, 1966. No one knows what happened that night in Tashkent when Shastri suddenly died. After the Indo-Pak war in 1965, an agreement was being signed between the two countries in Tashkent. He died suddenly in the early hours of January 11, just 12 hours after his contract for a peace deal with Pakistan in Tashkent on January 10, 1966.
It is officially said that he died of a heart attack but there is no conclusive evidence. In 1965, there was a fierce war between India and Pakistan for six months between April and September 23. In January 1966, 4 months after the war ended, top Indo-Pakistan leaders gathered in Tashkent, which falls in the then Russian territory, for a peace deal. President Ayub Khan had arrived on behalf of Pakistan. On the Indian side, the then Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri had reached Tashkent. The peace agreement between the two countries was signed on January 10. Shastri was under a lot of pressure after signing the India-Pakistan agreement in Tashkent. Shastri was widely criticized in India for giving back Haji Pir and Thithwal to Pakistan, even his wife was angry about the decision.
Shastriji was accompanied by his information officer Kuldeep Nayyar in Tashkent. Nayyar said in an interview, "Lal Bahadur Shastri called home that night.'' As soon as the phone rang, he said, "Give a call to Amma." His elder daughter came on the phone and said Amma would not come on the phone. He asked why? The answer was because you gave Haji Pir and Thithwal to Pakistan. He is very angry about it. Shastriji was shocked by this. He said that after that he kept going around the room. He then called his secretary Venkatraman and wanted to know the reactions coming from India. Venkatraman told him that by then two statements had come, one belonged to Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the other to Krishna Menon and both of them had criticised Shastriji's decision."
He died suddenly within 12 hours of signing the agreement. Was his death normal or was he murdered? Many people are said to have seen Shastri walking in a worrying condition in his room after the agreement. The then Congress government did not even conduct a postmortem of Lal Bahadur Shastri's body. It is said that if the post mortem had been conducted at that time, the real cause of his death could have been revealed. The absence of postmortem of a Prime Minister's body even after his sudden death has always pointed fingers at the country's oldest political party. Indira Gandhi became the Prime Minister of the country shortly after Shastriji's death, so many people see Shastriji's death as a conspiracy to grab the chair
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