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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| office = [[Spouse of the prime minister of India|Spouse of the Prime Minister of India]]<br />
| name = Lalita Shastri<br />
| termend = 11 January 1966<br />
| termstart = 9 June 1964<br />
| birth_date = 11 January 1910<br />
| death_date = 13 April 1993<br />
| birth_place = [[Mirzapur]], [[India]]<br />
| death_place = [[New Delhi]], [[India]]<br />
| spouse = [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]]<br />
| primeminister = [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]]<br />
| succeeded = Gujraben Desai<br />
| predecessor =[[ Jawaharlal Nehru| '' Vacant'']]<br />
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'''Lalita Shastri''' (born '''Lalmani Devi'''; 11 January 1910<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Lalita-Shastri/6000000004242826175|title=Lalita Shastri|website=[[Geni.com]]|accessdate=12 October 2020}}</ref> – 13 April 1993){{citation needed|date=November 2020}} was the wife of Prime Minister of India, [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]]. <br />
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Lalita Devi was from [[Mirzapur]] in [[Uttar Pradesh]]. She married Lal Bahadur Shastri on 16 May 1928. After marriage, the couple lived for several years in [[Allahabad]] before moving to [[Lucknow]] and then to [[New Delhi]]. Lal Bahadur Shastri spent nine years of his life in jail. During these spells, Lalita looked after the children and household. The family moved to [[New Delhi]] in 1952 when Shastri became the railway minister. However they vacated the premises after his death. But in 1968, then Prime Minister [[Indira Gandhi]] allotted the house to Lalita Shastri, the wife of Lal Bahadur Shastri, and she lived there till her death in 1993.<br />
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Today ''Lal Bhadur Shastri Memorial'' run by Lal Bahadur Shastri National Memorial Trust, is situated next to [[10 Janpath]] the official residence of her husband as prime minister, at 1, Motilal Nehru Place, New Delhi.<br />
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She founded the ''Shastri Sewa Niketan''. Her son [[Sunil Shastri]] is its present{{when|date=April 2021}} chairman. Lalita Shastri died in 1993 in New Delhi. [[Anil Shastri]], one of her sons, is a former [[Lok Sabha]] member.<br />
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An epic poetry book in [[Hindi]] titled ''Lalita Ke Aansoo'' written by Krant M. L. Verma was published in 1978. In this book the complete story of her husband Lal Bahadur Shastri has been narrated by Lalita Shastri. Lalita herself wrote verse on occasion, and a few songs written by her (such as "भोला भोला रटते रटते") were set to tune by Chitragupta and sung by Lata Mangeshkar.<br />
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