New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid tributes to Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary.
Nehru, India’s first prime minister, was born in Prayagraj in 1889 and was one of the leading faces of the country’s freedom struggle.
His admirers credit him for nurturing democratic roots in the country.
Modi said on X, “Tributes to our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Ji on his birth anniversary.”
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi paid floral tribute to Nehru at Shantivan in the national capital.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge highlighted Nehru’s pivotal role as an architect of modern India.
“In his understanding, only a Democratic structure which gave space to various cultural, political, and socio-economic trends to express themselves could hold India together,” Kharge wrote on X.
Today, as we gather in Shanti Van, to pay our revered tributes to him, we must preserve, protect and defend India’s Constitution and our long-cherished Democratic institutions and principles — his enduring legacy,” he added.
BJP MP and Nehru’s other great-grandson, Varun Gandhi, paid his respects to the late leader, acknowledging his contributions to the social and economic foundations of modern India.
“Nehru ji, who carried forward the traditions of the national movement and gave the message of an all-inclusive society through the confluence of democracy, socialism and secularism, is a true ‘national hero’,” he said.
