New Delhi, Feb 17: US civil rights leader Martin Luther King III met Congress president Sonia Gandhi here last evening.

Prominent American civil right activists and lawmakers including John Lewis, Congressman Spencer Bachus, Andrew Young and legendary jazz musician and Grammy winner Herbie Hancock are part of the delegation.

The delegation is on a 12-day trip to India to retrace the steps of Martin Luther King Jr., who came to India to study Mahatma Gandhi.

The delegation will travel around major locations associated with Mahatma Gandhi.

The delegation will also visit Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad from where Mahatma Gandhi had started the 322 kilometers long salt march known as the ''''Dandi Yatra'''' as a mark of protest against tax levied on salt by the British in 1930.

Martin Luther King Jr. had visited India between February 10 and March 10 in 1959, and the month-long tour to places associated with Mahatma Gandhi had left a positive impact for his crusade in the US. (ANI)