New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Moditoday paid tributes to Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary. Soon after assuming office Modi paid his respects to Nehru. Modi tweeted on Nehru's 50th death anniversary.
I pay my tributes to our 1st Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his Punya Tithi.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 27, 2014President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice-President Hamid Ansari, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi also paid floral tributes to the departed leader at Shanti Van, his memorial on the banks of Yamuna.
Former Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Planning, Rajeev Shukla, Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) president Arvinder Singh Lovely and Congress leader Haroon Yusuf were among those who paid tributes to the leader.
A large number of Congress workers and school children also paid homage to Nehru. Devotional songs were played and an all-religion prayer meeting was organised at the memorial. Nehru, who was born on November 14, 1889, died on May 27, 1964.
