Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi also known as Father of  Nation popularly known as  M G Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar which in the present day is known as Gujarat.  Mahatma shares his birthday with another great Indian figure, Lal Bahadur Shastri who was born in 1904. This year we will be celebrating the 153rd birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. From PM Modi to various other big politicians pays tribute to Mahatma Gandhi. Rahul Gandhi also pays tribute to the father of India.

Rahul Gandhi visited a Khadi Gramodyaga Kendra in Karnataka's Badanavalu where Mahatma Gandhi had visited in 1927, "We remember and pay our respects to that great son of India. Our remembering is made more poignant by the fact that we are on the 25th day of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, a padyatra in which we are walking his path of ahimsa, unity, equality and justice."

He further added, "Just as Gandhiji fought the British Raj, we ... (have) embarked on a battle with the very ideology that killed Gandhi. This ideology has delivered inequality, divisiveness and the erosion of our hard-won freedoms in the past eight years. Against this politics of himsa (violence) and 'asatya' (lies), the Bharat Jodo Yatra will spread the message of Ahimsa and Swaraj from Kanyakumari to Kashmir."

Congress also took to their official twitter actor and wrote, "With Gandhi 'topi' on his head, Bapu's values in his heart and intention to unite India, Rahul Gandhi along with other participants of Bharat Jodo Yatra visited Khadi Village Industries at Badnavalu in memory of Bapu on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti," tweeted Congress.

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