Question

what is the tribute that Nehru pays to gandhiji?

Answer 1

“The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere” is justifiably famous and well-known.

A madman has put an end to his life, for I can only call him mad who did it, and yet there has been enough of poison spread in this country during the past years and months, and this poison has had an effect on people’s minds. We must face this poison, we must root out this poison, and we must face all the perils that encompass us, and face them not madly or badly, but rather in the way that our beloved teacher taught us to face them."

Yet he must have suffered, suffered for the failing of this generation whom he had trained, suffered because we went away from the path that he had shown us, and ultimately the hand of a child of his – for he, after all, is as much a child of his as any other Indian – the hand of that child of his struck him down."

Answer 2

' ultimately ,the hand of a child of his struck him down' set the first Prime Minister referring to Godse in the constituent assembly on February 2 1948.
Jawaharlal Nehru's extempor broadcast on All India Radio announcing the news of Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination on January 30 1948" the light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere" is justifiably famous and well known.
But Nehru made and even greater speech in constituent assembly three days later, on February 2 1948. In the broadcast Nehru describes Gandhi's Assassin as a "madman"