President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and others on Thursday paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his birth anniversary. PM Modi said his government will follow his path for building a developed India.

He said on X, "Gandhi Jayanti is about paying homage to the extraordinary life of beloved Bapu, whose ideals transformed the course of human history. He demonstrated how courage and simplicity could become instruments of great change."

Modi said Gandhi believed in the power of service and compassion as essential means of empowering people.

He also paid homage to India's second prime minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri, whose birth anniversary, too, fell on Thursday.

He lauded him as an extraordinary statesman whose integrity, humility, and determination strengthened India.

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