Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday led the nation to pay tributes to Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary. India’s first prime minister and a stalwart of the freedom movement, Nehru died in 1964 at the age of 74. Congress too paid rich tributes to India’s first prime minister Nehru with party chief Mallikarjun Kharge saying the country’s history is incomplete without the incomparable contribution of “the architect of modern India”.
Kharge and former Congress president Sonia Gandhi also paid floral tributes to the former prime minister at his memorial ‘Shantivan’ here. In a social media post Kharge said the history of India is incomplete without the incomparable contribution of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the architect of modern India, who took India forward in scientific, economic, industrial and various fields. Nehru was a dedicated guardian of democracy and our source of inspiration, he said.
The Congress president quoted Nehru as saying that the protection of the country, progress of the country, and unity of the country is the national religion of all of us.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi also paid tributes to his great grandfather. “Respectful tributes to the architect of modern India and the first Prime Minister of the country, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary.As a visionary, he dedicated his entire life to building India through the freedom movement, establishing democracy, secularism and laying the foundation of the Constitution. His values will always guide us,” Rahul Gandhi said in a social media post.