The celebrations to mark 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on Wednesday will have the Congress, which the father of the nation once led, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which once espoused ‘Gandhian socialism’, contest his legacy.
Interestingly, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which does not lay any direct claim to Gandhian political legacy, will honour him by inaugurating its ‘central school’ for training of its cadres, the HKS Surjeet Bhawan, in the national capital on the day.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad to pay his homage to Gandhi and declare the