“I do not want to ask where all that money used to go (during the previous governments)”.
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He hit out at Pakistan for “glorifying” terrorists referring to the the eulogising of militant Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani. This situation needs to change…
Expressing his gratitude to the Baloch nations who sought India’s help over Pakistan’s brutalities in Balochistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, the Prime Minister said he was grateful to them for reaching out to him.
Two Baloch leaders earlier on Saturday welcomed Prime Minister Modi’s stand to expose Pakistan’s brutalities in Balochistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
The Islamic States (IS) and a Pakistani Taliban group claimed responsibility for the suicide attack at the emergency department of a hospital on August 8 which killed over 70 people and injured almost 200 others.
“There was a time when government was surrounded by allegations but now the government is surrounded by expectations”.
“One society, one dream, one resolution, one destiny – we proceed in this direction”, he said. “But we have added more than 4 crore new connections in just 60 weeks”. We are working to bring in social change.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspects a guard of honour prior to delivering his Independence Day speech from The Red Fort in New Delhi on August 15, 2016. “We remember all our martyrs from every segment of the state”. Today the citizen is not happy with just the announcement of projects, the unveiling of plans.
Call for accountability: “Accountability should be at the root of good governance”, the prime minister said in his speech from the Red Fort. But that is possible only if we adopt global standards. “From Delhi it takes three hours to reach Nagla Fatela village in Hathras, it took 70 years for electricity to reach there”, he added.
Flaying Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit’s statement that his nation “dedicates this independence day to the independence of Kashmir”, the Congress Party on Monday said had Prime Minister Narendra Modi acted sensibly, Pakistan would have not dared to speak such things on Indian soil.
After Indira Gandhi’s assassination, the bullet-proof glass had become a tradition and all Prime Ministers since then had addressed the nation from behind the glass.
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The tradition of delivering the annual address from the steps of the 17th-century Red Fort from where Mughal kings ruled Delhi for two centuries dates back to Jawaharlal Nehru’s historic “tryst with destiny” speech of 1947.
