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| Panthers pay tributes to "most honest politician" | | Bhim Singh recalls his last meeting with Shastri | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan11: Panthers Party chief Prof Bhim Singh Friday said that message of former Prime Minister late Lal Bahadur Shastri to make India great and strong shall be a great source of inspiration for the new generation.
"Shastri ji was great politician of India in honesty, dedication and commitment to the national cause whose mission was to serve the nation at every cost least caring for his personal interest or welfare," the resolution adopted unanimously in a special meeting of the Panthers Party activists in Delhi, said. Prof Singh reminded the Young Panthers about the greatness Bahadur Shastri who had bank balance almost nil at the time of his death and his family were living in an ordinary rented house. The Panthers supremo recollected that on his return from Aligarh Muslim University to J&K, the government had issued warrants against him for having charged the state ministers (Congress) for corruption and for changing the syllabus in the school books describing J&K as an independent part of the country. "I met Shastri ji at his residence, and submitted a charge-sheet against the Congress ministers in J&K. I also told the Prime Minister that the J&K government was after my blood. Shastri ji assured that nobody will touch me. He called an MP, Gupta ji, who was staying in South Block to look me till he (Shastri ji) returned from the Tashkent," Prof Singh reminded of his last meeting with Shastri.
"When Shastri ji left for Tashkent next morning I told my party workers that I stayed with Gupta ji waiting for the return of Shastri ji. It was 11 January, 47 years back when I was informed by Gupta ji that Shastri ji was no more. I waited for a week in Delhi sharing grief with the family members of Shastri ji. When I returned to Jammu after a week I was put in special jail at Canal Road (where Sheikh Abdullah was detained previously). I was released seven months' after from the special jail from detention only after the Supreme Court ordered my release," he added. |
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