Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah pays tributes to former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 53rd death anniversary in Bengaluru yesterday. Nehru, who was sworn in on August 15, 1947, as the first prime minister of India when the nation gained independence from the British empire, died on May 27, 1964. He was born on November 14, 1889, in Allahabad.