- 30/01/2025
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: Local News, News
On 30 January 1948 Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated.
This day is also known as Martyrs’ Day, ‘Shaheed Diwas’
or ‘Sarvodaya Day’ and is observed across India to honour those who sacrificed their lives for the nation.
I laid a wreath at Gandhiji’s statue in Parliament Square with HE Vikram Doraiswami the High Commissioner for India and Lord Megnad Desai.
This 15th poem by Narsi Mehta, ‘Vaishnav Jan To Tene Kahiye Je’, written in Old Gujarati, was adopted by Mahatma Gandhi into the roster of prayers routinely sung at the Sabarmati ashram.
