Ahmedabad, Aug 1: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at the Sabarmati Ashram, and said his teachings ring true even today.
Abdullah placed a khadi garland on the statue of Mahatma Gandhi and tried operating a ‘charkha’ or spinning wheel.
He said that my visit to Ahmedabad is now complete. l feel both humbled & privileged to have been shown around the Sabarmati Ashram of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi.
His teachings ring true even today & point us in the direction we should take, but seldom do,” wrote Abdullah in a post on X.
In another post, he quoted that Gandhi “True democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the centre. It has to be worked from below by the people of every village”.
Abdullah has been in Gujarat since Wednesday for a tourism event.
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