Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2nd October 1869 at Porbandar in Gujrat. He had completed his education at Bhavnagar. Then he went to United Kingdom to become the barrister. He completed his law in 1888 and went to South Africa for practice. At that time our country was ruled by the British, where the people were treated brutally by the British.  His political Guru was Gopal Krishna Gokhale called Gandhiji back to our nation. So Gandhiji had decided to give up his practice as a lawyer and come back to India and fight for the Indians for freedom. He became the president of Indian National Congress in 1920 after the death of Lokmanya Tilak. He led many movements, such as non -cooperation movement (1920), Dandi March (salt Satyagraha) under the movement Civil Disobedience (1930), Ouit India movement (1942) and so on. He fought against the British by using his powerful weapons, truth and non-violence. So, he was called the devotee of truth and non violence. In his honour, United Nations' General Assembly has announced 2nd October as the International world non-violence day on 15th June 2007.

    He was an Indian  Lawyer, anti- colonial nationalist, ethicist, social reformer and a great writer. "My Experiments with Truth"was his autobiography. He  also started two newspapers named  Harijan  and Young India. He advocated cleanliness drive. He tried to eradicate the untouchability custom and other evils from Indian society. 

He advocated the use of swadeshi goods and khaadi. Simple living and high thinking was his motto. He gave the lesson of self reliant. He acted as  he spoke.He also commited mistakes like theft and  telling lies in his childhood but he confessed his  guilts .This fact is also mentioned in his autobiography. It shows that he was a devotee of truth. On seeing his life and work, we get many moral lessons. He fraught for the freedom and make our nation free from British rules. So the song is rightly describ the fact 

"De di hame aazadi, bina khadag bina dhal, Sabarmati ke Sant tune kardiya kamal"

Such a great person was assassinated on 30th January 1948 at New Delhi by Nathuram Godse.

   The second eminent personality before us  whose stature might not be big but the fame is beyond comparison that is Lal Bahadur Shastri He was born on 2nd October 1904 at Mughalsarai, Utter Pradesh.

His father was Sharada Prasad Shrivastava and mother was Ramdulari Devi. And his surname was Shrivastava. He graduated with the title of Shastri it means scholar in the scriptures. It was the part of his bachelor's degree award. But this title got into his name and he was known as Lal Bahadur Shastri. He completed his graduation from Kashi (Varanasi) University.

     He had great influenced of Mahatma Gandhi. He became the life member of Lok Seva Mandal founded by Lala Lajpat Rai. He started to work for the upliftment of the society. The slogan Jai Javan, Jai Kisan was coined by him to encourage the two great soldiers of our nation, one who fight on the border and who fight in farm that is farmer. Jawan protects us and farmer provides food for us. So these two persons are important for us.

   He became the second prime minister of India after Nehruji. He promoted the white revolution to increase the production and supply of milk. He also promoted the Green Revolution. He was imprisoned several times. He was a man of inner strength, humble and tolerant. He had the vision of Nation's  progress. He was a great politician. Such versatile person passed away on11th January 1966 at the age of 61,at Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

  These two personalities' lives and work are inspiration for all of us. I would like to thank the organizers for giving me an opportunity to express I conclude  my speech by paying my tribute to these two true leaders i.e Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri.

Jai Hind ,Jai Bharat.

Gandhi Jayanti and Lal Bahadur Shastri Jayanti Celebration in my College. 

Share