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Opinions expressed in it are the author ’s own. The publisher is in no way responsible for these.  \nEditor Veena Batra  \nCover and layout by Somesh Kumar Mishra Digital Release by Government  \nPrinted by Vikas Computer and Printers  \nContents  \nPrologue  \nDeath strikes silently  \nControversy erupts  \nRumble in Rajya Sabha  \nLalita Shastri opens up  \nA statement of“facts”  \nCase revisited  \nA personal quest  \nA world of conspiracies  \nSoviet hand or Indian?  \nMega mysteries merged  \nTowards a closure  \nAppendix i  \nAppendix ii  \nPrologue  \nWhen a devastating earthquake shook Tashkent in April 1966, leaving scores dead and more than 300 thousand out of 1.5 million residents homeless, some God-fearing survivors felt it was a divine retribution for what had happened to the Indian prime minister earlier that year. A few months afterwards, a tearful Lalita Shastri visited the quaint villa where her husband had been lodged. A lady caretaker guided her to the room where he had breathed his last. The Uzbeki woman’s eyebrows wrinkled. ‘No telephone,’ she sombrely whispered—underlining that the Indian PM was virtually cut off from the world when his last moments came.  \nThe suspicions that some people in Tashkent spoke about in hushed tones were the talk of the town in India in those days. That there was something more to Lal Bahadur Shastri’s death than what had been given out officially. Today, the tragedy in Tashkent ranks as one of India’s two most enduring political controversies, the other being the disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra ‘Bose. So overwhelming is the spectre of Shastri s death on our collective psyche that every time his name is taken, the discussion invariably leads to what really happened in January 1966. Shastri’s great life needs no elaboration. His simplicity, honesty and integrity are forever etched on our minds, but gnawing at our conscious still is the nagging question why there never was an inquiry into the only instance in our history where our head of government had died in a foreign land?  \nIt’s not that the matter was not flagged before the nation. Moments after Shastriji’s obituary was read out in Parliament, Atal Bihari Vajpayee asked:‘What really happened in Tashkent?’ He wondered if Shastri’s death could have been avoided. Why couldn’t he summon his doctor from his bed when he felt uncomfortable? Why wasn’t there provision for administering oxygen in his room? If there was a proper arrangement, his life perhaps could have been saved in those crucial 5-6 minutes.  \nBut then, who would have wanted Shastri dead? What could have been the motive for even contemplating such a horrendous crime against India? In the words of his childhood friend TN Singh, Shastri was ajatshatru—‘hardly any enemy could be born to that man.’ A Central Intelligence Agency assessment of 1965 agreed: ‘He has made very few enemies in a 40-year career in politics’.  \nThere was no inquiry because the official stand was always firm that Shastriji had died due to a heart attack. There was absolutely nothing to suspect foul play. Some people alleged that there was something, but nothing would convince those in power to take a relook at the official position. The demands that were raised off and on died out and the issue went into cold storage. It was intermittently revived along with the Subhas Bose controversy. As it happened, both matters became intertwined. 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