Overview
- Delhi leaders, including Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, offered tributes at Vijay Ghat and highlighted his simplicity, integrity and public-service ethos.
- Shastri led the nation through the 1965 Indo‑Pak war, publicly backing the armed forces and projecting resolve during a tense period.
- His call of “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan,” first voiced in 1965 in Prayagraj, became a unifying message honoring soldiers and farmers.
- He championed early agricultural modernization that supported improved food production and helped lay groundwork for the Green Revolution.
- He died on January 11, 1966 in Tashkent hours after signing the Tashkent Declaration, and he was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously that year.