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Prime Minister Modi, Sonia pay tributes to Jagjivan Ram

Indian Prime Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Leader Narendra Modi (C) gestures as he walks alongside former army General V.K. Singh (L) at a state assembly election rally in Ghaziabad on February 8, 2017, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Five Indian states - Punjab, Goa, Manipur, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh - will elect new governments over the next five weeks with results of all set to be announced on March 11. / AFP PHOTO / PRAKASH SINGH

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday paid tributes to freedom fighter and Dalit icon Babu Jagjivan Ram on the occasion of his 115th birth anniversary.

Paying tributes to the former deputy Prime Minister, Modi posted on Twitter: “Tributes to Babu Jagjivan Ram Ji on his birth anniversary. Our nation will always remember his remarkable contribution be it during the freedom movement or after Independence. He was widely admired for his administrative skills and concern for the poor.”

The Prime Minister also posted an old picture in which he is seen offering tributes to Jagjivan Ram along with former finance minister Arun Jaitley.

Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi also led the grand old party in paying tributes to Jagjivan Ram.

 

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