Premiership of Lal Bahadur Shastri

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Lal Bahadur Shastri
2nd Prime Minister of India
In office 9 June 1964 – 11 January 1966
President	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Preceded by	Gulzarilal Nanda (Acting)
Succeeded by	Gulzarilal Nanda (Acting)
Personal details
Born	Lal Bahadur Srivastava (1904-10-02)2 October 1904 Mughalsarai, United Provinces, British India (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India)
Died	11 January 1966(1966-01-11) (aged 61) Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR (present-day Uzbekistan)
Political party	Indian National Congress
Spouse	Lalita Shastri
Occupation	Academic, Activist

The premiership of Lal Bahadur Shastri extended from 9 June 1964 to 11 January 1966. Formerly the Minister of External Affairs, Shastri became the Indian Prime Minister after the death of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, on 27 May 1964. Shastri's tenure as Prime Minister lasted only nineteen months due to his sudden death in Tashkent (then Soviet Union).^[1]