PM Modi pays tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at Raj Ghat

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at Raj Ghat on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary.
Modi was received by BJP working President JP Nadda, Union Minister for Commerce Piyush Goyal and Minister of State (MoS) independent charge, Hardeep Singh Puri at Raj Ghat.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla also paid floral tributes to Mahatma at his final resting place.
The Prime Minister then left for Vijay Ghat to pay tributes to former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on his 115th birth anniversary.
Many other dignitaries including Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani also reached Rajghat to pay tribute to Gandhi.
Both Congress and BJP are organising a number of events throughout the country to mark Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary.