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NEW DELHI (NNN-Bernama) -- India fondly remembered former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 27th death anniversary on Monday with President Pratibha Patil leading the nation in paying rich tributes to the departed leader, reports Press Trust of India (PTI).
Patil paid floral tributes at Shakti Sthal, the memorial of Gandhi, here on Monday morning.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Lok Sabha(lower House of Indian Parliament) Speaker Meira Kumar, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were also present on the occasion.
Delhi Lt Governor Tejinder Khanna, Union Ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh, Kamal Nath, K V Thomas, N Narayana Swamy and Krishna Tirath and senior Congress leaders Motilal Vohra, Manishankar Aiyar were also present.
Devotional songs were played at the venue as the dignitaries sat at Shakti Sthal after paying tributes to the late leader. A speech by Indira Gandhi was also played on the occasion.
The former prime minister was assassinated by her bodyguards on Oct 31, 1984, the same year when she had launched 'Operation Blue Star' to crush secessionist movement in Punjab and sent troops into the Golden Temple of Amritsar. -- NNN-BERNAMA
The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Speaker, Lok Sabha, Smt. Meira Kumar, the Chairperson, National Advisory Council, Smt. Sonia Gandhi, the Member of Parliament, Shri Rahul Gandhi, and Dr. Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat, and other dignitaries, at a prayer meeting, at the Samadhi of former Prime Minister, Late Smt. Indira Gandhi, on her death anniversary, at Shakti Sthal, in Delhi on October 31, 2011. © PIB
The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil laying wreath at the Samadhi of former Prime Minister, Late Smt. Indira Gandhi, on her death anniversary, at Shakti Sthal, in Delhi on October 31, 2011. Dr. Devisingh Ramsingh Shekhawat is also seen. © PIB
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh paying floral tributes at the Samadhi of former Prime Minister, Late Smt. Indira Gandhi, on her death anniversary, at Shakti Sthal, in Delhi on October 31, 2011. © PIB
The Speaker, Lok Sabha, Smt. Meira Kumar paying homage at the Samadhi of former Prime Minister, Late Smt. Indira Gandhi, on her death anniversary, at Shakti Sthal, in Delhi on October 31, 2011. © PIB