Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has visited India after 25 years, has said that she and Jawaharlal Nehru had many things in common.

Suu Kyi, who is on a five-day visit to India, said that many of the challenges faced by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru during their struggle for India's independence had also been facing by her over the course of her struggle.

The 67-year-old pro-democracy icon, whose father General Aung San was a personal friend of Nehru, "The survival of their relationship, which was both personal and political, in spite of their many differences, is one of the triumphs of Indian politics."

Suu Kyi was delivering the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture, nearly seventeen years after she was bestowed with the Jawaharlal Nehru memorial Prize in the year of 1995, the year in which she was released from house arrest.

Nobel Peace Laureate Suu Kyi's father General San is regarded as Myanmar's independence hero.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi described Suu Kyi's visit as "something of homecoming" and praised the pro-democracy leader saying she was the praiseworthy successor of a noble father's inheritance.