President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi were among the several leaders who paid tributes to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 100th birth anniversary on Saturday.
“Indira Gandhi played a major role in shaping our country's role and destiny during a critical period in history. She was a crusader for global peace, a just economic order and disarmament,” Mukherjee said. “Tributes to former Prime Minster Smt. Indira Gandhi on her birth anniversary,” Modi said in a tweet.
Prayer meetings were held at Indira Gandhi Memorial at Safdarjung Road, Congress party headquarters and Parliament House to mark the former PM's birth anniversary. Paying tribute to her mother-in-law on her birth anniversary, Sonia said she would need a couple of rebirths to tell the whole story of Indira Gandhi.