Question

Which former Prime Minister is also known as "Man of Peace"?
1. Pandit jawaharlal nehru
2. Lal Bahadur Shastri
3. Rajiv Gandhi
4. Chaudhary Charan Singh

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Lal Bahadur Shastri

The correct answer is Lal Bahadur Shastri.

• Lal Bahadur Shastri was the second prime minister of India during 1964–66 after Jawaharlal Nehru.
• Lal Bahadur Shastri earned the nickname of The Man of Peace for he was always preferred the path of peace instead of aggression.
• Shastri was a member of Mahatma Gandhi’s non-cooperation movement against the British government in India. He was imprisoned for a short time in 1921.
• Lal Bahadur Shastri was elected to the legislature of the United Provinces in 1937 and 1946.
• After Indian independence, Shastri gained experience as a minister for home affairs and transport in Uttar Pradesh.
• Shastri was elected to the Central Indian legislature in 1952 and became union minister for railways and transport.
• He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously in the year 1966.

Pandit jawaharlal nehru	Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India. On October 31, 1940, Pt. Nehru was arrested for offering individual Satyagraha to protest against India’s forced participation in the war.
Rajiv Gandhi	Rajiv Ratna Gandhi was an Indian politician who served as the 6th Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the 1984 assassination of his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to become the youngest Indian Prime Minister at the age of 40. In May 1991 Gandhi was campaigning in Tamil Nadu state for the next round of parliamentary elections when he and 16 others were killed by a bomb concealed in a basket of flowers carried by a woman associated with the Tamil Tigers.
Chaudhary Charan Singh	Chaudhary Charan Singh served as the 5th Prime Minister of India between 28 July 1979 and 14 January 1980. Historians and people alike frequently refer to him as the champion of India's peasants. Charan Singh entered politics as part of the Independence Movement.