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Tripura Congress pays tribute to first PM of India
TIWN May 27, 2018
Tripura Congress pays tribute to first PM of India
PHOTO : Tripura Congress pays tribute to first PM of India Jawaharlal Nehru. TIWN Pic May 27

AGARTALA, May 27 (TIWN): Along with the whole nation Tripura has also paid tribute to Jawaharlal Nehru on his 54th death anniversary.

The activists of Congress have remembered the first prime minister of India at Congress Bhawan in Agartala with full devotion.

This activity as a part of honouring the Ex-PM was observed across state’s Congress party offices.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, “Tributes to our first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary”.

Nehru became the General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee in September 1923.

On August 29, 1928 he attended the All-Party Congress and was one of the signatories to the Nehru Report on Indian Constitutional Reform, named after his father Motilal Nehru.

The same year, he also founded the ‘Independence for India League’, which advocated complete severance of the British connection with India, and became its General Secretary.

In 1929, Pt. Nehru was elected President of the Lahore Session of the Indian National Congress, where complete independence for the country was adopted as the goal. He was imprisoned several times during 1930-35 in connection with the Salt Satyagraha and other movements launched by the Congress.

Nehru, whose birthday on November 14 is also celebrated as Children’s Day, was sworn-in on August 15, 1947 as the first prime minister of India when the nation gained independence from the British empire. Serving until his death till May 27, 1964, Nehru remains India’s longest-serving prime minister. 

 

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