Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri’s son Anil Shastri has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declassify the existing files related to his father’s death. Anil Shastri also added that family always wanted an enquiry into the matter.
While raising the demand, he also elaborated that this was not the first time that speculations were made about the former prime minister’s death. He also mentioned that an RTI petition was filled by an individual seeking the declassification of the same files. The then UPA government cited security and international relations as resisting factors .
Lal Bahadur Shashtri was found dead under suspicious circumstances in Tashkent in January 1966, giving rise to reports of a deep-rooted conspiracy.
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