I am India's Prime Minister.
Indira remarked, shedding tears, "Now you take care of the country: The tale of Shastri, who strolled to Lahore and eventually became PM.
It was 1965 at the time. Nehru was no longer alive. Lal Bahadur Shastri, a short man, was appointed prime minister. General Ayub Khan, the president of Pakistan, thought that this was the ideal time to steal Kashmir from India. Pakistan's army entered Jammu and Kashmir and initiated Operation Gibraltar as a result of this miscommunication.
India struck back as well. The Indian Army had arrived in Lahore by September 23, 1965, when the conflict came to an end after a month. Prime Minister Shastri then addressed a gathering at Delhi's Ram Leela Maidan. "Pakistan President General Ayub Khan was saying that he will reach Delhi by walking," he declared in his address to the country. We also went for a walk in Lahore while this was the plan. I don't believe we did anything improper here.
In the second installment of the television series "Main Bharat ka PM," the life tales and the story of Lal Bahadur Shastri's ascent to the prime minister are told.
With Nehru's passing, the question of who will take up his legacy arose.
On May 27, 1964, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru passed away. The most important query facing the nation was: Nehru's successor? In his book "After Nehru Who," American journalist and writer Wells Hangen notes that Morarji Desai was the front-runner for the prime ministership at the time.
In addition, the names of Indira Gandhi, YB Chavan, Lal Bahadur Shastri, VK Krishna Menon, Jai Prakash Narayan, SK Patil, and Brajmohan Kaul were also being mentioned. How to Select the PM: Congress did not follow a conventional process. The script for selecting India's next prime minister was being written by K. Kamaraj, the president of the Congress at the time.