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prime minister of India

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Lal Bahadur Shastri at Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (now Uzbekistan)
(From left) Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri with Mohammad Ayub Khan, the...
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Lal Bahadur Shastri
An independence activist and statesman, Shastri became the second prime minister...
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