Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind paid tributes to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 100th birth anniversary.
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid tributes to former prime minister Indira Gandhi on her 100th birth anniversary. Indira Gandhi, the first woman Prime Minister of India, was born on November 19 in 1917 in Allahabad.
She was the second longest-serving Prime Minister after her father Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. She held the Prime Ministers office from January 1966 to March 1977 and from January 14,1980 till her death in 1984.
On Sunday morning, the Congress vice president, along with former prime minister Manmohan Singh and former president Pranab Mukherjee, visited Shakti Sthal, the memorial site of Indira Gandhi, to pay tributes to her.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday remembered her “dadi” and former prime minister Indira Gandhi on the latter’s 100th birth anniversary.
“I remember you Dadi with so much love and happiness. You are my mentor and guide. You give me strength,” Rahul Gandhi tweeted.
Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her bodyguards at her Safdarjung residence in New Delhi on October 31, 1984.
