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LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI |
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| 'I Am
Responsible'Lal Bahadur identified himself with
the Railways so much that he felt he was responsible if anything went wrong in his
department. When he was the Railway Minister in 1956, 144 passengers died in an accident
that took place near Ariyalur in Tamil Nadu. Just three months before this, an accident
that took place near Ariyalur in Tamil Nadu. Just three months before this, an accident
had occurred at Mehboob Nagar in which 112 people died. Lal Bahadur was in no way
responsible for these accidents. Yet he was very much pained. He felt he could not escape
the moral responsibility for them. He had submitted his resignation letter to Pandit Nehru
when the Mehboob Nagar accident took place. But Nehru had not accepted it. But when the
Ariyalur accident took place Shastriji said, 'I must do penance for this. Let me go.' So
strong was his sense of responsibility.
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