<p class="title">Rich tributes were paid to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her birth centenary today with former President Pranab Mukherjee leading the remembrances.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Senior Congress leaders, including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, party chief Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi, also paid homage to the late leader.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mukherjee and Singh, besides Rahul Gandhi, paid floral tributes to her at her memorial, 'Shakti Sthal'.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"No one can erase Indiraji's memory," Mukherjee said at an event later at 1 Safdarjung Road, where Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her bodyguards on October 31, 1984. A photo exhibition has been organised there to mark her 100th birth anniversary.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sonia Gandhi said Indira Gandhi took pride in India's rich diversity and its democratic and secular values.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"She fought for secularism, against all those forces seeking to divide the Indian people on lines of religion and caste. For her as Prime Minister there was but one religion, a sacred creed passionately held-- that all Indians were equal children of the motherland," the Congress president said in her speech.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Indira Gandhi also fought for India's dignity and independence as a sovereign nation, against the dominance of superpowers, she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"And not only for India, but for all countries that resisted colonial and post-colonial forms of hegemony," Sonia Gandhi added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rahul Gandhi recalled his grandmother, whom he described as his mentor and guide.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I remember you Dadi with so much love and happiness. You are my mentor and guide. You give me strength. #Indira100," he tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Congress communications incharge Randeep Surjewala said on Twitter that she worked tirelessly "to shape a new future" for the country.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"...India first & India always. That was Indiraji! #Indira100," he said on the micro-blogging site.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Often described as the 'Iron Lady of India', Gandhi was born on this day in 1917 in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad. </p>
<p class="title">Rich tributes were paid to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her birth centenary today with former President Pranab Mukherjee leading the remembrances.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Senior Congress leaders, including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, party chief Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi, also paid homage to the late leader.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Mukherjee and Singh, besides Rahul Gandhi, paid floral tributes to her at her memorial, 'Shakti Sthal'.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"No one can erase Indiraji's memory," Mukherjee said at an event later at 1 Safdarjung Road, where Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her bodyguards on October 31, 1984. A photo exhibition has been organised there to mark her 100th birth anniversary.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sonia Gandhi said Indira Gandhi took pride in India's rich diversity and its democratic and secular values.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"She fought for secularism, against all those forces seeking to divide the Indian people on lines of religion and caste. For her as Prime Minister there was but one religion, a sacred creed passionately held-- that all Indians were equal children of the motherland," the Congress president said in her speech.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Indira Gandhi also fought for India's dignity and independence as a sovereign nation, against the dominance of superpowers, she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"And not only for India, but for all countries that resisted colonial and post-colonial forms of hegemony," Sonia Gandhi added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rahul Gandhi recalled his grandmother, whom he described as his mentor and guide.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I remember you Dadi with so much love and happiness. You are my mentor and guide. You give me strength. #Indira100," he tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Congress communications incharge Randeep Surjewala said on Twitter that she worked tirelessly "to shape a new future" for the country.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"...India first & India always. That was Indiraji! #Indira100," he said on the micro-blogging site.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Often described as the 'Iron Lady of India', Gandhi was born on this day in 1917 in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad. </p>