The Real Iron Man !

31st October has a great importance in the History of Indian. On this auspicious day a stalwart, a legend was born, stalwart who provide us the present map or geography of our India. A son of a farmer who combined 565 princely states into the largest democracy of the world - Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel – A man who constructed India. A person who was raised in poverty, worked hard for his place, never compromised with the rights of poor people and with his principles. He is often known often known as the "Iron Man of India" or "Bismarck of India", he is also remembered as the "Patron Saint" of India's civil servants for establishing modern all-India services. It was he who introduced IAS exams, by the motif to connect more and more youth in the Governmental machinery.
He was raised in the countryside of Gujarat. Sardar Patel was a successful lawyer, but due to the influence of Gandhi ji he left law and joined the Freedom movement. He was a strict devotee of Mahatma Gandhi and he believed in the Gandhi ji’s ideas and philosophy. Patel did not hesitate in using the policy of ‘Saam- Daam- Dand- Bhed’ (to teach, to convince, to punish and to differ) for achieving his objective among the owners of princely states. Such was his resolution that princely states were left with no other option but to merge with India, for the good of India, for the idea of unbreakable India. He is considered as very bright and genius leader of all time, he was a visionary person and was always successful in judging someone.
After winning the election of congress president, in 1946 Sardar Patel was going to be the first prime minister, but due to Nehru’s betrayal he could not achieve it. He was not given the respect which he deserved. I think we should have “Sardar Patel” in many things like currency, we should have a national holiday on 31st October; poverty removal plans, we should have statues on the honor of Sardar Patel. Bad luck of our nation is that we have named everything on the Nehru-Gandhi family, but not anything in the name of Sardar Patel or Bhagat Singh. It’s really sad that most of the Indians don’t know about his contribution, his family, his principles, but we can give a huge lecture on Nehru and Gandhi, really it can happen here. He took responsibility of all India except J&K, he gave full result on adding every princely state, while Nehru took responsibility of Jammu & Kashmir and he failed badly.

31st October, 2014 GOI is going to conduct a “Run for Unity” on the honor of Sardar Patel. I expect this initiative could be more successful than expected. I hope every citizen of India could realize the involvement of him in uniting the nation. He is an unsung hero of, he never asked for any favors and he never got what he actually deserved. We should honor this person every time; I hope I have expressed my feelings among you. I hope you have enjoyed it while reading!

Remember Me?

Its October 2^nd, as we know it is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, a non-violent leader whom we call as our “Father of The Nation”. But today I am going to talk about a person, whom we have forgotten in present era. I am talking about “Lal Bahadur Shastri” second Prime Minister of India. One of the most honest PM of our nation, son of farmer and a very humble person. He shared the birth date with Gandhi, and that’s why I think people don’t remember his birthday, because they are too busy in celebrating Gandhi ji’s birthday.

Shastri ji was born on 2 October, 1904 in Ram agar in Varanasi in Kayastha Family. Shastri ji didn’t believe in caste discrimination, dropped his title. Later, when he graduated at Kashi Vidyapeeth, he was given the title of Shashtri. He was a strong believer of Gandhi ji but very few of us know that he was influenced by Lokmanya Tilak in his early days.  In 1921, when Mahatma Gandhi call for youth to come out of schools and colleges and join the Non-Cooperation movement, Shashtri paid heed to that call. This also marked Shashtri’s first move towards India’s freedom.

Lal Bahadur Shastri went to jail as early as when he was 17-years-old. Jailed for his participation in non-cooperation movement, Shastri was later let-off as he was only 17 (minor) then. In 1930, during the Civil Disobedience Movement Lal Bahadur Shastri was again jailed for his participation in it. This time Shastri served a jail-term of two and half years. Shastri learned about western philosophers and social reformers during his jail-term. Lal Bahadur Shastri was also arrested in 1940, and 1941 till 1946. The fact will surprise you a bit that Shastri spent almost nine years in jail in total during India’s Independence activism.

Shastri ji was the person who starts the appointment of woman conductors in the transport facilities; also it was him who ordered using jets of waters instead of lathis to disperse the crowd when he was minister of police department.

“Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan”

It is also very well known that after Nehru’s death, Indira Gandhi was offered as PM’s post but she refused it and after that Shastri ji was offered as PM post. It was he who made a committee regarding prevention of corruption, Shastri ji was a short man but his will power and his determination was bigger than his heights.

In the war of 1965 he was the leader who led from the front and gave a free hand to the Indian army that time, Shastri ji was expired on 11 January 1966, he suffered cardiac arrest, but his death is still a mystery.

In today’s world, when we see moral and ethical life of political leaders and parties reaching to a new low, it is surprising to observe that our past had given us great leaders who stood the test of time with integrity, conviction and clarity. Shastri ji was one such a character!