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- The KGB suspected poisoning. At 4am, Ahmed Sattarov, the Russian butler attached to Shastri, was rudely woken up by an officer of the Ninth Directorate of the KGB (responsible for the safety of VIPs).
- Shastri’s near and dear ones see a needle of suspicion pointing towards an insider's hand. When Shastri’s body was brought to Delhi, no one had any clue about what the KGB was suspecting.
- No post mortem was carried out on Shastri’s body. The only sure-shot way to find out whether or not Shastriji was poisoned was to carry out a post-mortem on his body.
- RTI responses muddied the water further. In 2009, I tried to get some clarity on the issue by filing RTI applications. The prime minister's office (PMO) told me that it possessed only one classified document relating to the former prime minister’s death, and that there was no record of any destruction or loss of any document related to the tragedy.
Lal Bahadur Shastri's Death, a 2018 television documentary film by Jyoti Kapur Das reconstructs his death and covers various conspiracy theories around it, including interviews with his son Sunil Shastri.
Jan 10, 2016 · TASHKENT, U.S.S.R. — Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri of India died here early today of a heart attack, hours after he and President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan had signed an agreement...
Jan 11, 2018 · Learn about the life, achievements and death of India's second Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, who passed away in Tashkent on January 11, 1966. Find out how he led the country during the Indo-Pak War of 1965 and signed the Tashkent Declaration with Pakistan.
Jun 24, 2024 · Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian statesman, prime minister of India (1964–66) after Jawaharlal Nehru. He died of a heart attack after signing a ‘no-war’ agreement with President Ayub Khan of Pakistan and was succeeded as prime minister by Indira Gandhi, Nehru’s daughter.
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Oct 2, 2013 · The web page explores the mysterious circumstances of the death of the Indian Prime Minister in 1966, who signed a peace declaration with Pakistan in Tashkent. It examines two conspiracy theories: one blaming Pakistan and the other blaming the Soviet Union, and challenges their plausibility.
Learn about the life and achievements of Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India who led the country during the Indo-Pakistan War in 1965. He died on 11 January 1966, a few weeks after his visit to Tashkent to negotiate with Pakistan.
