Lal Bahadur Shastri

Lal Bahadur Shastri was the second prime minister of India after Jawaharlal Nehru. He was born on October 2, 1904 in Mughalsarai to Sharada Prasad Srivastava and Ramdulari Devi.
Shastri studied until the sixth standard at the East Central Railway Inter college in Mughalsara. Later, he joined the seventh standard at Harish Chandra High School in Varanasi.
During that time, he decided to drop his surname "Srivastava." Later, he completed his graduation from a nationalist university with the title of shastri which means “learned in the scriptures”.
However, a teacher named Nishkameshwar Prasad Mishra, who gave Shastri financial support by giving him the chance to tutor his children.
On that time, Lal Bahadur took interest in the freedom struggle and began to read its history and the works of several of its noted personalities that includes Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi and Annie Besant.
He was a part of Mahatma Gandhi’s noncooperation movement against British government and he was imprisoned for a short time in 1921. Subsequently, he got selected to several positions in the Congress Party.
In 1966, Shastri died due to a heart attack in Uzbekistan within a day of signing a peace treaty to end the 1965 Indo-Pak War.