British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who’s on a two-day go to to India, visited the Sabarmati Ashram, often known as Gandhi Ashram, right here on Thursday after touchdown within the nation. The Ashram belief gifted him two books, certainly one of them an unpublished information for the good thing about these searching for to dwell in London, penned by Mahatma Gandhi himself.
After arriving on the Ahmedabad airport on Thursday morning, Johnson reached Sabarmati Ashram the place he was welcomed by Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and trustee Kartikeya Sarabhai, mentioned the Ashram’s spokesperson Virat Kothari.Gandhi had lived on the ashram from 1917 to 1930.
On behalf of the Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust, Sarabhai gifted two books and a reproduction of charkha or spinning wheel to Johnson, who spent almost half-hour on the premises.After paying floral tributes to Gandhi, Johnson additionally visited ‘Hriday Kunj’ the place the Mahatma lived, and ‘Mira Kutir’ the place Gandhi’s English-born disciple Mirabehn or Madeleine Slade used to dwell, mentioned Kothari.
The British PM additionally tried his hand on the charkha earlier than leaving.”One of the books gifted to Johnson was “Guide to London”, an unpublished e book which consists of Gandhi’s strategies on how one can dwell in London. It is the first-ever e book written by Gandhi and by no means bought revealed. We gleaned the content material from the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi and compiled a e book,” Kothari mentioned.
The different e book was “The Spirit’s Pilgrimage”, autobiography of Mirabehn. Johnson is scheduled to fulfill Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Friday.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”