Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, his mother and party leader Sonia Gandhi along with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on his 70th death anniversary.
While, the Congress chief visited Gandhi Smriti, the museum dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, Sonia and Manmohan paid floral tributes to the father of the nation at Rajghat, the Mahatma’s memorial on the banks of the Yamuna river.
On this day in 1948, Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, who fired three bullets into his chest during a prayer meeting at the Birla House here.
Gandhi is admired across the world for his nonviolent philosophy of passive resistance. He was known to his many followers as the Mahatma.