New Delhi:
The nation on Sunday remembered it's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 48th death anniversary, with President Pratibha Patil and Vice- President Hamid Ansari paying homage to him.
Ms Patil, Mr Ansari and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi paid floral tributes to Pandit Nehru at Shanti Van, his memorial on the banks of Yamuna in Delhi.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath were among prominent citizens who paid floral tributes at the memorial.
An all religion prayer meeting was also organised in the premises of the memorial.
Pandit Nehru, who was born on November 14, 1889, died on May 27,1964.