Lal Bahadur Shastri
"Jai Jawan Jai Kisan" ("Hail the soldier, Hail the farmer")
He was born on October 2, 1904 and was the 2nd Prime Minister of India and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress political party.
The day after peace was announced, Shastri was found dead in the capital of Uzbekistan, from what seemed like fatal heart attack.
He was the first Prime Minster to die overseas.
Some people claimed that Shastri was murdered and that his death was a cover up.
Before the incident, he had just been declared healthy by his doctor.
He had no previous signs of heart issues.
A request for access to documents pertaining to Shastri's death, was denied by the Prime Minister's office.
His family insists that he was poisoned.
Gregory Douglas is a journalist who interviewed former CIA operative Robert Crowley over a period of 4 years.
He recorded their telephone conversations and published a transcription in a book titled Conversations with the Crow.
In the book, Crowley claimed that the CIA was responsible for eliminating a Indian nuclear scientist whose plane crashed into Alps.
He was going to attend a conference in Vienna.
He also claimed that he killed Lal Bahadur Shastri.
Crowley said that the USA was wary of India's rigid stand on nuclear policy.
The prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri wanted to go ahead with nuclear tests.
He said that the agency was worried about collective domination by India and Russia over the region, for which a strong deterrent was required.
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