President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on their birth anniversary in New Delhi on Thursday (October 2, 2025).

PM Modi said his government will follow Gandhi’s path for building a developed India.

He said on X, “Gandhi Jayanti is about paying homage to the extraordinary life of beloved Bapu, whose ideals transformed the course of human history. He demonstrated how courage and simplicity could become instruments of great change.” PM Modi said Gandhi believed in the power of service and compassion as essential means of empowering people.

He also paid homage to India’s second Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri, whose birth anniversary, too, fell on Thursday (October 2, 2025).

He lauded

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