Write a note on the political transition that took place after Nehru.

Before his death in May 1964, Nehru’s illness had generated a speculation about the question of his succession such as ‘Who after Nehru’ and ‘After Nehru what’ ?It was feared that the failure could lead to a political role for the army. The ease with which succession after Nehru took place proved all the critics wrong. Lal Bahadur Shastri was unanimously elected leader of the Congress Parliamentary party. Even the ‘Guardian’ newspaper of London exalted the succession after Nehru. 

Even after sudden death of Shastri at Tashkent in January 1966, the transition from Shastri to Indira Gandhi was peaceful despite intense competition for leadership between Morarji Desai and Indira Gandhi. All this shows a sign of maturity of India's democracy.