INDIA: PRIME MINISTER MRS. INDIRA GANDHI PAYS RESPECTS AT MEMORIAL TO MAHATMA GANDHI ON 102ND ANNIVERSARY OR HIS BIRTH.

Record ID: 328670

  • Title: INDIA: PRIME MINISTER MRS. INDIRA GANDHI PAYS RESPECTS AT MEMORIAL TO MAHATMA GANDHI ON 102ND ANNIVERSARY OR HIS BIRTH.
  • Date: 3rd October 1971
  • Summary: 1. GV Prayer meeting 0.05 2. SV President Giri (left) and Vice President Pathak at prayer festival 0.11 3. CU Flowers on memorial platform 0.14 4. LV Mrs. Gandhi arrives and places flowers on memorial platform 0.34 5. CU People watch 0.37 6. SV Mrs. Gandhi stands in silence 0.42 7. CU & MV Mrs. Gandhi leaving (2 shots) 0.51 8. CU Crowd in bare feet walk past platform paying respects 0.56 9. MV People walking past platform (2 shots) 1.07 Initials BB/0028 RR/PN/BB/0100 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th October 1971 13:00
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  • Location: NEW DELHI
  • Country: India
  • Reuters ID: LVAQBD17A92CWNV2KU6YRJIFV11
  • Story Text: India commemorated the 102nd anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, "Father of the Indian Nation", on Saturday (2 October).

    In New Delhi, President V. V. Giri and Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi attended a commemorative prayer meeting at Raj Ghat, the memorial at the place where the Mahatma was cremated. The Indian independent and preacher of non-violence was shot dead by a Hindu fanatic in 1948.

    Other prayer meetings were held throughout the country.

    SYNOPSIS: At a solemn prayer meeting in New Delhi on Saturday, India's President Mr. V.V. Giri and Vice President Mr. Pathak joined their countrymen in commemorating the 102nd anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi.

    Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi was also present at the ceremony. She placed rose petals on the memorial at the Raj Ghat....the spot where the Mahatma was cremated.

    Mrs. Gandhi stood in silence before the memorial, paying her respects to one of India's most cherished memories. Mahatma Gandhi, who preached a life-long creed of non-violence while working for Indian independence, was shot dead by a Hindu fanatic in 1948.

    From early in the morning, hundreds of Indians, barefooted, came to the Raj Ghat to file past the memorial. Other prayer meetings were held elsewhere throughout the country, in memory of the "Father of the Indian Nation."
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