Tashkent Declaration

This timeline focuses on Lal Bahadur Shastri and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

Lal Bahadur Shastri died mysteriously at the Tashkent Declaration in 1966. His  sudden death immediately after signing the Tashkent Pact  with Pakistan  raised many questions in the minds of Indian citizens. The Prime Minister of India  going to Tashkent for a pact and never coming back has not been accepted easily by Indian citizens. His health was fit according to his doctor, R. N. Chugh, and he had no sign of heart trouble before.

Moreover t he "Official War History-1965 ", drafted by the Ministry of Defence of India  in 1992, was a long suppressed document that revealed other miscalculations. According to the document, on 22 September when the Security Council  was pressing for a ceasefire, the Indian Prime Minister asked commanding Gen. Chaudhuri if India could possibly win the war, were he to delay accepting the ceasefire. The general replied that most of India's frontline ammunition had been used up and the Indian Army had suffered considerable tank losses. It was determined later that only 14% of India's frontline ammunition had been fired and India held twice the number of tanks as Pakistan. By this time, the Pakistani Army had used close to 80% of its ammunition.

We will look at a scenario where the Indian Military intelligence had played a better role. The ceasefire was delayed and Lal Bahadur Shastri came back from the Tashkent Declaration fit and fine. Would he have been able to build a strong socialist state in India ?

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