Indira Gandhi remembered on death anniversary

The deputy Chief Minister also continued that the government will try to bring the leaders for talks at the earliest.

“The nation’s honour is at stake, as India’s superb historical past of unity in diversity is in hazard as a result of a few communal ideology”, she stated whereas addressing the twenty ninth “Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration” perform right here.

The Congress party on its official tweeter account stated: “We pay homage to Smt Indira Gandhi & Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel today (Saturday)”.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said India’s history of unity in diversity was in danger due to communal ideology and the “incidents of hatred” in the country were the outcome of the “planned conspiracy”.

Vice President Hamid Ansari and other leaders from Congress also paid tribute to the former prime minister.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi just offered her a twitter tribute but that clearly was not enough for the Congress, which is for the second straight year still getting used to marking Indira Gandhi’s death anniversary without power.

In the evening, Ms Gandhi and former Prime Minister organised a function and distributed awards in the memory of country’s first woman Prime Minister. “Tributes to former Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi on her death anniversary”, the Prime Minister tweeted.

People, who visited Shakti Sthal here, raised slogans hailing Indira Gandhi.