Lal Bahadur Shastri

First one was from 1952 to 1961 under Jawaharlal Nehru.

Then 1965 and 1966 under Lal Bahadur Shastri ji.

From 1983 to 1989, there was on and off SIR under Indira Gandhi and then Rajiv Gandhi.

From 1992 to 1995, there was next SIR exercise under PV Narasimha Rao.

let's say your name is deleted, you can go and talk to BLO, BLA and you can fill in form 6 immediately.

It's not like that.

Lal, salaam comrades.

Why, according to you, there isn't a fixed interval for SIR like every two election cycles? As there is no SIR since 2005, did this lead to? No.

And one is that directly as President of India.

Lal Bahadur Shastri, a very little man, no qualifications.

He was serving, serving Congress, and he was very good person.

At once he came to President of India or Prime Minister of India.

Nehru failed at many things, but not because he eschewed hard power.

His successor Lal Bahadur Shastri is already immortalized for proactively shutting down Pakistan's last chance to take Kashmir militarily in 1965 in that 22-day war.

Indira Gandhi has a more familiar history including 1971, so let's not go into that.

I don't believe anybody would ever accuse her of making India a soft state.

Within hours, he was gone.

In fact, I can't let you go without telling you a tiny story on the sidelines of the Tashkent Agreement and then Lal Bahadur Shastri's tragic death there.

So this is from a book written by Pakistani scholar Dr. Farooq Bajwa, and the book is titled From Kutch to Tashkent.

And Dr. Farooq Bajwa in his book recounts an incident that, that he vouches for, where he says that Pakistan's foreign secretary then, quite a, quite a clever fellow, Machiavellian, or maybe, maybe more evil than that, Aziz Ahmed, he comes to Bhutto.

In case of Shastri, I will rephrase that.

An even better legacy for a great public figure to leave behind is the institutions they built.

Next time you hear the word PMO, Prime Minister's Office, CBI, CVC, Agricultural Prices Commission, even the BSF, Border Security Force, think Lal Bahadur Shastri.

It is all of these institutions besides that war and peace that make his 19 months even more consequential for our present and future than the Emergency.