Delhi Congress leaders paid tributes to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 77th birth anniversary on Friday.
Delhi Congress Committee president Anil Kumar garlanded the portrait of the late Congress leader at the party office and distributed sari and While paying tribute to Gandhi, Kumar said that Rajiv jee was a visionary who foresaw the needs and challenges the country would face in the 21st Century and prepared the nation accordingly to make India a fast-developing world power.
Kumar said that it was Rajiv jee’s dynamic initiative that brought computer and telecom revolution to the country much ahead of time, and gave voting rights to 18-year-olds which made lakhs of young people eligible to vote.
On the occasion, Congress vice-president and former MLA Jai Kishan said that late Rajiv Gandhi was the master of the computer revolution of the country due to which our country became technically self-dependent. “He also reduced the age for youth allowing them to vote at the age of 18. Besides, he also took steps to ensure women empowerment, implemented panchayati raj and made farmers of the country self-reliant.