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Lalita Devi was from Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh. She and Lal Bahadur Shastri got married on 16 May, 1928. After marriage, the couple lived for several years in Allahabad before moving to Lucknow and then to New Delhi.
Both of them shared cheerfully the trials and tribulations of life.
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.
She Founded Shastri Sewa Niketan. Sunil Shastri is its chairman nowadays. Lalita Shastri died in 1993 in New Delhi.
An epic poetry book in Hindi titled Lalita Ke Aansoo written by Krant M. L. Verma was published in 1978.
Lalitaji herself wrote verse on occasion, and a few songs written by her (भोला भोला रटते रटते) were set to tune by Chitragupta and sung by Lata Mangeshkar.
