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prime
ministers
lal bahadur shastri
One of Lal Bahadur Shastri’s first major decisions
as Prime Minister was to offer the third position in the Cabinet to Morarji
Desai, who had been the main aspirant for the top job. Shastri must have known
the result: Desai would refuse. There was no way a stubborn man like him would
take a position lower than Gulzarilal Nanda, who had been just a parliamentary
secretary in Bombay when Desai was not only a minister in the 1937 government
but had been a minister for years since 1946, before becoming the chief
minister. Shastri had succeeded in his manoeuvre to keep Desai out. As the
little man had once said, “I am not as simple as I look.”
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