Modi, Rahul pay tributes to Lal Bahadur Shastri

New Delhi, Jan 11 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tribute to former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on his 52nd death anniversary saying he will be remembered for his courageous leadership.

“We pay homage to Shastriji on his punya tithi (death anniversary). His impeccable service and courageous leadership will be remembered for generations to come,” Modi said in a tweet.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday paid tributes to former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on his 52nd death anniversary and said building up unity and solidarity among people is a major task.

“My tributes to former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastriji on his death anniversary. Among the major tasks before us, none is of greater importance for our strength and stability than the task of building up the unity and solidarity of our people,” Gandhi tweeted.

Shastri, who was India’s second Prime Minister, was born in 1904 in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and served in the office between June 1964 and January 1966.

He died on January 11, 1966 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, a day after signing the Tashkent Declaration, reportedly due to cardiac arrest.

IANS