Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra paid floral tributes to Nehru at his memorial ‘Shantivan’ here. India’s first and longest-serving prime minister, Nehru was born on this date in 1889 in Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad (now Prayagraj). He was one of the leading faces of the country’s freedom struggle.
He breathed his last on May 27, 1964. In a post in Hindi on X, Rahul Gandhi said, “Respectful tribute to the creator of modern India,creator of institutions, first Prime Minister of India, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, on his birth anniversary. Democratic, progressive, fearless,visionary, inclusive ‘? these values ‘?’?of ‘Hind Ke Jawahar’ are ourideal and the cornerstone of India and will always remain so.
Congress Chief Kharge said Kharge said, “On the 135th birth anniversary of ‘Hind ke Jawahar’, the architect of modern India, the one who took India from zero to the peak, the one who made India develop in scientific, economic, industrial and various fields, the one who constantly gave the message of ‘unity in diversity’ to the country, the fearless sentinel of democracy and our source of inspiration, we remember his unprecedented contribution to the country.”
