Word: tandon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Repaid Loyalty. In his home state of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous and the birthplace of Jawaharlal Nehru, Shastri became the protege of the Hindu traditionalist leaders, Puru-shottamdas Tandon and Pandit Pant. With independence in 1947, he rose through the state government to become Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh...
When Prime Minister Nehru broke with the conservatives in 1951, Shastri abandoned one preceptor, Tandon, to join the other, Pandit Pant, in supporting Nehru. From that moment Lal Bahadur Shastri never left Nehru's side, and the grateful Prime Minister repaid the loyalty with a succession of Cabinet jobs...