Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid tributes to India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary. He said on social media, “Tributes to our former PM, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary.â€
Nehru is India’s longest serving prime minister who was at the helm since its independence in August 1947 to till his death in 1964. Congress Parliamentary Party chief Sonia Gandhi paid floral tributes to Nehru at his memorial at Shanti Van here.
In its tributes, Congress said he simply refuses to go away in spite of a systematic “6D effort†being made since 2014 to defame, distort, deny, denigrate, diminish and demolish him and his legacy.
Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi asserted that Nehru laid a strong foundation of independent India with his visionary leadership.
Rahul Gandhi said Nehru’s contribution in the establishment of social justice, modernity, education, Constitution and democracy is invaluable. In a post in Hindi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge shared a quote of Nehru that “Citizenship lies in serving the countryâ€.
The country will always remember his great contribution, Priyanka Gandhi said in her tributes to “the maker of modern Indiaâ€.
