Tributes offered to Nehru on his 120th birth anniversary
New Delhi:On the occasion of Children's Day, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi paid tributes to Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister
of the country on his 120th birth anniversary at Shantivan, where his mortal remains
were consigned to flames in May 1964. President Pratibha Devi Singh Patil and
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit also paid their tributes to Nehru. Several
Congress leaders also paid floral tributes. Small boys wearing traditional white
Kurta Pyjamas and cap sang songs. Children and leaders also released tricolor
balloons. India made significant technical, industrial and social advances when
Nehru was the country's Prime Minister. An ardent democrat and internationalist,
Nehru, along with President Nassar of Egypt and President Tito of undivided Yugoslavia,
founded the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Nehru was prime minister from 1947 to
1964.
