By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Vice President Hamid Ansari launched a book titled ‘Modern Thought Leaders: Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Lectures (1997-2014)’.
The book, edited by Anil Shastri, Former Union Minister and son of Late Lal Bahadur Shastri, was launched in a programme organized here on Friday.
Addressing the audience, the Vice President emphasised on the role of morality in public life and underscore the relevance of some of the fundamental concepts like green revolution, peace and corruption free governance.
Expressing immense pleasure in releasing the book, he said, “The ideal way to remember any person is to organize Memorial Lectures in his memory”.
He noted that this book is the Collection of Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial lectures present a unique perspective to the reader. The lectures not only illuminate the various facets of the life, work and personality of Shastriji, but also, in context of Shastri ji’s vision, present the opinions.
Praising Shastri, he said his life was dedicated for public service and “he was a person of great integrity and competence, humble, tolerant, with great inner strength and resoluteness, Shastri Ji was a leader of the people who understood their language”.
“He was also a man of vision who led the country towards progress,” he added.