Every year on 14th November 2023 Children’s Day is celebrated on the occasion of independent India’s first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Children’s Day is also known as Bal Diwas. As the late prime minister of India was fond of children, his birth anniversary is celebrated as Children’s Day every year nationwide. On this occasion, schools organize special functions and events for students when they participate in different games and competitions. A memorial event also takes place on the birth anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Today, the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi paid tribute to India’s first PM on his birth anniversary. Let’s delve deep into the article and read how PM Modi and Nehru’s heir Rahul Gandi paid tribute to him. Stick with this page and go through it till the end.
The prime minister of India, Narendra Modi took to his X handle and wrote, “Tributes to our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Ji on his birth anniversary.” Notably, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi also used his Twitter handle to pay tribute and show his faith in Jawaharlal Nehru’s ideology. He wrote, “Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is a thought–of freedom, progress, and justice. Mother India today needs these values of ‘Jawahar of Hind’, like an ideology, in every heart,”
There are a number of senior leaders who paid tributes to Nehru on his birth anniversary. The president of the Congress party Mallikarjun Kharge and Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi are among the senior leaders who paid floral tributes to the late prime minister of India at Shantivan in Delhi on his birth anniversary. Mallikarjun Kharge, the congress president posted on the micro-blogging site, “Paying tribute to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru ji on his birth anniversary, who took India from zero to the pinnacle, the creator of modern India, the fearless guardian of democracy and our source of inspiration,”
He further added, “His progressive ideas advanced India’s social, political, and economic development despite all the challenges and encouraged the people of the country to live together at every moment, without any discrimination and always keeping the country first,” The Indian National Congress shared a picture of children wearing iconic Nehru’s cap and white traditional Kurta Pajama with the caption, “The children of today will make the India of tomorrow.” Stay tuned to this website.