<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 22pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: #222222;">External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela gave hope to those facing injustice and discrimination.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 22pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: #222222;"> </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 22pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: #222222;">The External Affairs Minister was the keynote speaker at a banquet at Pietermaritzburg in South Africa, marking the 125th anniversary of the day, when on 7th June, 1893, Mahatma Gandhi, a young lawyer then, was thrown off a train compartment reserved for whites only.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 22pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif; color: #222222;"> </span></p>