Tag: Shastri poisoned

His body was accompanied by Kosygin, the then Chief of USSR. Serious doubts were raised about the manner of Lal Bahadur Shastri's death. He was reported to have gone for Dinner and on return to his room complained of chest pain and died. The body contained dark bluish marks around the abdomen. After the 1965 war with Pakistan, Shastri had gone to Tashkent, in the erstwhile USSR, to meet the then Pakistan President Mohammad Ayub Khan.. On January 11, 1966, a day after signing Tashkent declaration, he died under mysterious circumstances. His family had alleged foul play and demanded a post-mortem to know the causes of his death but it was not conducted. There reports of post mortem having been conducted by by Shastri's personal physician, Dr. R. N. Chugh, Lal Bahadur Shastri's Personal Physician and a team of doctors from Russia in Tashkent, this was by the Government of India in 2009. Later the same government declared that no post mortem was conducted. when confronted with a series of representations made by, including Ms Lalitha , widow of Lal Bahadur Shastri, Shastri's son, and a host of others through the Right to Information Act.