Boris Johnson pays tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at Sabarmati Ashram

Kicking off his two-day visit to India, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived in Ahmedabad on Thursday morning.(Express/Nirmal Harindran)

UK PM Boris Johnson pays tribute to Mahatma Gandhi along with Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel at Gandhi Ashram, Sabarmati during his visit to Gujarat. (Express/Nirmal Harindran)

Boris Johnson will be gifted a copy of the autobiography of Madeleine Slade, better known as Mirabehn. She was the daughter of a British admiral who later went on to become a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi.(Express photo/ Nirmal Harindran)

Johnson visited Mahatma Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad on Thursday morning, where he tried his hand at the 'Charkha'. (Express/Nirmal Harindran)

In a note penned in the visitor's book of the Sabarmati Ashram, Boris Johnson paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi. He wrote that it was an "immense privilege to come to the Ashram of this extraordinary man". (Express/Nirmal Harindran)

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will announce a raft of commercial agreements and hail a "new era" in bilateral trade and investment ties during his visit to India, the UK High Commission said on Thursday shortly before he landed in Gujarat. (Express/Nirmal Harindran)

In the city, he will go to Gujarat Biotechnology University, Akshardham temple in Gandhinagar and also a plant of JCB company at Halol near Vadodara city too. (Express/Nirmal Harindran)