PM Narendra Modi salutes Lal Bahadur Shastri
Modi described Shastri as a man "with strong determination" and "a symbol of simplicity" and "a person who gave India the slogan Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan".
Senior
Congress
leader
Anil
Shastri
pays
tribute
to
Lal
Bahadur
Shastri
at
Vijayghat
#MyCleanIndia
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ANI
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October
2,
2014
Before paying floral tributes to Shastri -- India's second prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru -- at Vijay Ghat, Modi paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi at his memorial at the nearby Raj Ghat.
Both Gandhi's and Shastri's birth anniversaries fall on Oct 2.
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