Question

Who succeeded Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as the Prime Minister of India?
1. Lal Bahadur Shastri
2. Indira Gandhi
3. Morarji Desai
4. Gulzarilal Nanda

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Gulzarilal Nanda

The correct answer is Gulzarilal Nanda.

• Following the death of Pt. Nehru, Gulzarilal Nanda was sworn in as Prime Minister of India on May 27, 1964.
• Again on January 11, 1966, he was sworn in as Prime Minister following the death of Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri at Tashkent.

• Lal Bahadur Shastri held the Prime Minister's office from 9 June 1964 to 11 January 1966.
• He gave the famous slogan "Jai Jawan, Jai Kishan" during the Indo-Pak war 1965.
• He was awarded Bharat Ratna (posthumously) in 1966.
• Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on October 2, 1904, at Mughalsarai, a small railway town seven miles from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
• He supported and promoted the White Revolution and Green Revolution.
• He was the key person in setting up the Food Corporation of India.
• He led India in the India-Pakistan War in 1965.
• He died in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (then the Soviet Union) on 11 January 1966, one day after signing a peace treaty (Tashkent Agreement) to end the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War.