Gandhinagar, Thursday: The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Shri Boris Johnson is visiting India
from April 21 st and he started his visit to India from Gujarat. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
visited the well renowned historical Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad. Chief Minister Shri Bhupendra Patel
also joined him during his entire visit to Gandhi Ashram. Shri Boris Johnson came to Hriday Kunj and was
influenced by Gandhian ideas. He offered floral tribute to the idol of Gandhiji. He visited various khands
of Hridayakunj, and also visited the Ahmedabad Gallery at Gandhi Ashram. Shri Boris Johnson also
visited the Mira Kutir at Gandhi Ashram. British Lady Madeleine Slade who was a British citizen.
Impressed by Gandhiji’s ideology , she came to Gandhi Ashram and the Kutir in which she lived is named
Mira Kutir.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Shri Boris Johnson by expressing his feelings he wrote in the
visitor’s book that, ‘My visit to Gandhi Ashram is indescribable and my experience of coming to Gandhi
Ashram has been very good. Gandhiji provided an example of how one can change the world through
truth and non- violence’. On this occasion, two books ‘Guide to London’ and ‘Autobiography of Miraben’
were presented to Shri Boris Johnson as a gift from Gandhi Ashram.
On this occasion Chief Secretary Shri Pankaj Kumar, Chief Principal Secretary to CM Shri K.
Kailashnathan, Ahmedabad District Collector Shri Sandeep Sangale, Sabarmati Ashram Trustee Shri
Kartikeya Sarabhai, Trustee Shri Amrut Modi, Sabarmati Ashram Director Shri Atul Pandya, Chief
Protocol Officer Shri Jwalant Trivedi were present.
