13 chandigarh | gurugram | jalandhar | bathinda | jammu | srinagar | vol.3 no.273 | 16 pages | ~4.50 | regd.no.chd/0006/2018-2020 established in 1881 | thursday, october 3,2019 /thetribunechd /thetribunechd www.tribuneindia.com THE TRIBUNE NATION JALANDHAR | THURSDAY | 3 OCTOBER 2019 QUOTEUNQUOTE KILLERS CLAIMING Mahatma Gandhi pioneered successive non-violent movements that changed history. 150 years since his birth, Gandhi’s GANDHI’S LEGACY philosophy is at the core of our work at the UN. May his courage and conviction continue to inspire us. Antonio Guterres, UN CHIEF Those who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi are now ❝ trying to make him their own. They are trying to Tributes & political jostling to claim Bapu’s legacy interpret Gandhi’s statements in their favour. NewDelhi, October 2 remembrances of the Mahatma Pinarayi Vijayan, KERALA CM His writings, his spoken words and efforts to understand his pro- HOUSE REMEMBERS HIM and vignettes from his life — found contribution to society. ■ Parliament paid tributes to cele- HIS INDIA UNDER Mahatma Gandhi was the President Ram Nath Kovind, brate the 150th birth anniversary SEVERE ATTACK refrain in the farthest corners of Vice President Venkaiah Naidu of Mahatma Gandhi. Lok Sabha India on his 150th birth anniver- and Modi led the nation in paying Speaker Om Birla said not just Today, as we inaugurate sary on Wednesday as tributes rich tributes to the Father of the India, the entire world was cele- #SurjeetBhawan, it is poured in and parties jostled to Nation at his memorial in Rajghat. brating the birth anniversary Gandhi's 150th birth stake claim to his legacy. Observing that Gandhi envi- ■ Birla said Gandhi was an ‘institu- anniversary. Gandhi's sioned Indian nationalism as one tion’ in himself whose philosophy India and our that was never narrow or exclu- consisted of faith, spirituality and GANDHI sive, Modi proposed what he called culture and this is the reason that Constitution is under the ‘Einstein Challenge’. “How do his birthday is celebrated every severe attack. year the world over as ‘Interna- we ensure the ideals of Gandhi are tional Day of Non-Violence’ Sitaram Yechury, CPM GEN SECY remembered by future genera- ■ Among those who paid floral trib- FOLLOW MAHATMA, tions? I invite thinkers, entrepre- neurs and tech leaders to be at the utes to Gandhi were PM Narendra DON’T DEIFY HIM Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath forefront of spreading Gandhi’s Singh, Leader of Opposition (Rajya Society and nation will ideas through innovation,” Modi Sabha) Ghulam Nabi Azad, Former stand transformed if our wrote in the New York Times, in an Deputy PM LK Advani and Con- article titled ‘Why India and the gress president Sonia Gandhi young generation even World Need Gandhi’. partially follows what he “We pledge to continue working << Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and (Gandhi) stood for.... But 150 hard to realise his dreams and cre- Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, he should not be deified. ate a better planet,” he said on Rahul Gandhi and Ghulam Nabi Azad From Prime Minister Twitter, adding that the nation MUKESH AGGARWAL Nitish Kumar, BIHAR CM at Parliament House. Narendra Modi to Con- expresses its gratitude to Gandhi gress president Sonia Gandhi and for his everlasting contribution to with both organising marches, shun single-use plastic. gress’ Lok Sabha poll debacle in was in Lucknow. She claimed from schools big and small to the humanity. Gandhi’s favourite way of reach- The Congress, which has seen May, Sonia Gandhi as well as her that the Congress was the only beaches of Dandi, there were mul- Modi also travelled to Gujarat to ing out to the people, in their bid to over the years a gradual appropri- children, former party chief Rahul one party that followed the path tiple odes to the man whose ideas address a gathering in the Sabar- cash in on his legacy. ation of some of its stalwarts by Gandhi and general secretary shown by him and carried on his and ideals were instrumental in mati Ashram. The government BJP president Amit Shah the BJP, launched a counter-drive Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, were out legacy. Those who indulge in the shaping India’s freedom struggle used the day to stress on cleanli- kicked-off a four-month exer- with its president Sonia Gandhi on the streets accompanied by politics of falsehood cannot and post-Independence journey. ness, the dangers of single-use cise in which party leaders taking a swipe at the Modi govern- thousands of party workers. understand his ideals of truth An outpouring of tributes, plastic and the aim of making across the country will under- ment, saying the Mahatma would While Rahul Gandhi led a and selfless service, she said. marches and commemorative India open defecation-free. take foot marches and address have been pained by what has march of party workers to A mega cleanliness drive was AI to paint Gandhi’s events marked the day that saw The celebrations appeared to be public events to mark his 150th happened in India over the last Rajghat, Sonia Gandhi waited at organised on the sea beach in Dandi, image on 5 aircraft customary ceremony and grand- a game of one-upmanship birth anniversary. Shah asked few years. In a show of strength, the memorial to address the the place associated with the historic In a tribute to Mahatma standing, but also genuine between the Congress and the BJP people to follow Modi’s call to perhaps the first since the Con- workers and Priyanka Gandhi ‘Salt Satyagrah’ of 1930. — PTI Gandhi, Air India will get his image painted on the tail- end of five aircraft in the No consent, China next 15 days. “The image of BJP’s 5-yr strategy to steal show Mahatma Gandhi will be Redeem Gandhi’s India: Sonia function shifted to painted on tail of (Boeing) NewDelhi, October 2 becomes an essential part of NewDelhi, October 2 747, 777, 787, 320, ATR,” an It was in the very first year of their narrative. Congress president Sonia Indian Embassy AI spokesperson said. IANS his first term in 2014 that PM The NDA government may Gandhi today admonished a Beijing, October 2 Narendra Modi launched his have changed names of some Twitter-happy party to hit the The celebrations of Mahat- government’s flagship clean- UPA programmes christened roads to preserve Mahatma ma Gandhi’s birth anniver- liness programme — Swachh after Congress leaders, but its Gandhi’s idea of India. sary, which is held every Bharat Abhiyan — on the flagship programme “Mahat- Addressing Congress work- year since 2005 at a public birth anniversary of Mahatma ma Gandhi National Rural ers who congregated at park in Beijing, was shifted Gandhi. Five years down the Employment Guarantee Gandhi memorial Raj Ghat to the Indian Embassy line, the Modi government 2.0 Scheme”, which was mocked here after a 4-km-long pady- premises in the last minute and the BJP spearheaded by Modi while being the atra led by past president on Wednesday after the Chi- mega events to mark the Gujarat CM, continued with Rahul Gandhi, Sonia took nese government denied 150th birth anniversary of the Minister Prakash Javadekar bigger allocations when he jibes at the BJP without nam- Priyanka Gandhi takes part in the ‘Jan Aakrosh Padyatra' in Lucknow. permission to hold the Mahatma even as party’s ide- became the PM. ing it and said some people event, Indian Embassy offi- SACHIN GETS SWACHHTA tries his hands on a spinning ological fountainhead RSS Over the past five years, wanted the RSS to become cials here said. However, no AWARD:Cricketer Sachin wheel. MUKESH AGGARWAL A DAY OF PADYATRAS IN LUCKNOW Tendulkar was awarded with also pitched in. Modi was seen promoting the symbol of India in place Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary became a day of explanation was given by the Most Effective Swachhta Sarsanghchalak Mohan Partition, interacted with Gandhi’s legacy, his thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi but padyatras —an agitation tool perfected by none else than him the Chinese authorities as Ambassador award by Bhagwat said, “Gandhiji, who “swayamsevaks” and and his views on cleanliness that’s not happening. ■ Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra led the 3-km to why the permission was President Ram Nath Kovind believed in the Swa-based expressed joy over their disci- and “khadi”. The PM, who The Congress chief said ‘Jan Aakrosh Padyatra’ in Lucknow on Wednesday not given, they said. during a private event held to reorganisation of Bharat, pline and absence of divisive normally does not react to Bapu’s heart would be ■ CM Yogi too took out a padyatra from his official residence to the For the last 14 years, Gand- mark Gandhi Jayanti. PTI firmly stood for social equali- feelings over caste and creed. untoward statements by party anguished today to see the 1090 crossing where he took a pledge to shun single-use plastic hi Jayanti celebrations were ty and harmony and translat- While the Congress claims leaders, made an exception state of affairs of India for the ■ Lucknow Lok Sabha MP and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh also being held at the Chaoyang Statue unveiled in Nepal ed his vision into action, had the BJP had been “forced to when it came to Mahatma. “I past five years (read since the undertook a padyatra from BJP office to the Hussainganj crossing Park after a statue of ‘Father Kathmandu: Mahatma set an example for all through acknowledge the Mahatma” will never be able to forgive BJP came to power). She was of the Nation’ sculpted by Gandhi’s first statue in Nepal his life.