Addresses people as ‘mere parivarjano’, says the next five years a golden period of India’s journey towards developed nation status; promises to return to the Red Fort in 2024 to report national progress
New Delhi: Addressing people as “my family members”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, August 15, urged them to declare war on corruption, dynastic politics and appeasement to achieve the goal of transforming India into a developed nation by 2047, a special report by Aditi Tandon in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says
.Addressing the country from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 77th Independence Day, the prime minister listed past achievements of the government and laid the roadmap for the future.
Stressing that India was not going to stop in its onward march now, the PM listed “corruption, family-based parties and vote-bank politics as the three evils sapping national capacity and potential.”
“I seek your help to eradicate some evils that have crept into our society in the past 75 years,” said the prime minister listing the need for propriety, transparency and impartiality to make India developed by 2047.
Noting that there was never any dearth of capacity in India, PM said the country could “no longer shut its eyes to these evils”.
“Some aberrations have become such a part of the social system that sometimes we close our eyes to them. This is not the time to close eyes. If we have to counter these evils, we have to look them in the eye and fight the evils,” the PM said.
He said corruption had sapped vitals of all systems and a “war against corruption in all sectors is a must”.
He also spoke of the country being shackled by dynastic politics which “has snatched rights of the people”.
“The third evil is appeasement which has blemished our national character. These three challenges are suppressing our capacity. We have to create an atmosphere of hate for corruption. Just like we can’t tolerate dirt around us we should understand that corruption is the biggest social dirt,” said the PM as he exuded confidence of a win in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
“Some aberrations have become such a part of the social system that sometimes we close our eyes to them. This is not the time to close eyes. If we have to counter these evils, we have to look them in the eye and fight the evils,” the PM said.
The PM said “These are parties of the family, by the family and for the family. This is their political slogan. Dynasties and nepotism are enemies of talent. Ridding nation of dynasties is important for national progress,” said
He added that appeasement politics had “murdered and destroyed social justice”.
“If the nation wants development we have to develop a mood of non-tolerance for corruption. We can’t allow future generations to live the way we lived. We must leave them a better country,” urged the prime minister repeatedly calling the people “mere priya parivarjano (my dear family members) instead of “bhaiyo aur behno (brothers and sisters).”
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