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Floral tributes paid to former PM Rajiv Gandhi on his 76th birth anniversary

| @indiablooms | Aug 20, 2020, at 05:59 pm

Puducherry/UNI: Floral tributes were paid to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 76th birth anniversary here on Thursday.

Chief Minister V Narayanasamy, Revenue minister M O H F Shajahan, Assembly Speaker V P Sivakolunthu, Congress legislators and others garlanded the statue of Rajiv Gandhi at Ellapillaichavady.

PCC president A V Subramanian and party functionaries also garlanded the statue.
Verses from Bhagavad Gita, Quran and Bible were read out at the pedestal of the statue and the Chief Minister administered the Sadbhavana pledge to the gathering.

Earlier, rich tributes were paid to a decorated portrait of Gandhi in front of the PCC office here in which the Chief Minister and other leaders participated. 

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