Himachal Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur and other leaders of the state and people from different walks of life offered floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at the historic Ridge, here on the 150th birth anniversary of the Father of Nation.
The Chief Minister also administered the ‘Swachhatta Oath’ to the people present on the occasion to keep the State clean to achieve the dream of ‘Swachh Bharat’.
He also flagged off School Children Rally-Run Against Drug Abuse and Awareness on the occasion.
Thakur later also offered floral tributes on the memorial of former Prime Minister Late Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri on his 114th Birth anniversary along with Education Minister Suresh Bhardwaj and other leaders including councilors. The Chief Minister termed him as an apostle of peace and harmony.
The artists of Information and Public Relations Department presented devotional songs on the occasion associated with the lifetime of Mahatma Gandhi.
Earlier, the Chief Minister along with Mayor Municipal Corporation Shimla Kusum Sadrate, Deputy Mayor Rakesh Sharma and Councillors participated in Swachhatta Abhiyan at Sanjauli on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. School children participated with great enthusiasm in the cleanliness campaign launched by the Chief Minister.
Thakur also released special edition of Himprastha, the monthly magazine of Information and Public Relations Department. The special addition contains several interesting stories regarding visits of Gandhi Ji to Shimla from 1921 to 1945.
Former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, Chief Whip and MLA Narender Bragta, MLAs Nand Lal, Vikramaditya Singh and Balbir Verma, Chief Secretary B.K. Agrawal, Political Advisor to the Chief Minister Trilok Jamwal, Additional Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister Sanjay Kundu, Deputy Commissioner Shimla Amit Kashyap, Director Information and Public Relations Anupam Kashyap, SP Shimla Omapati Jamwal and several people from different walks of life also paid floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri on the occasion.