India, Oct. 24 -- Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid tribute to former Bihar Chief Minister Jannayak Karpoori Thakur at his native village, the Congress on other hand remembered its fformerparty chief Sitaram Kesri on his 25th death anniversary for the first time at the Delhi party old headquarters setting the tone for the politics of backward class in poll bound Bihar.

The Prime Minister on Friday arrived in Samastipur and paid visit to Karpoori gram and paid floral tributes to him and also interacted with the children there. He was accompanied by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and socialist icon son Ram Nath Thakur, who is also a Union Minister.

The Congress, however, remembered the former party chief Kesri at its ...