- PM Narendra Modi said that India, today, is a land of opportunities and the eyes of the world are on India. There are expectations from India and there is confidence that India will contribute to the betterment of our planet.
- While speaking on the farm laws and its related topics, he said that problems of agriculture should be resolved and there is a need to work for this. The Prime Minister invited all the parties to move forward for the welfare of the farmers.
- Prime Minster Narendra Modi has warned that India needs to be wary of new form of FDI – Foreign Destructive Ideology and #AndolanJeevis – habitual protesters.
- The Prime Minister said that effective handling of the Covid pandemic is not a success of a party or individual but is a success of the nation and should be celebrated as such.
- The Prime Minister addressed the criticism of Indian democracy and said that Indian democracy is not a western institution but a human institution. It is imperative to alert the countrymen about the all-round attack on Indian Nationalism, he said.
Prime Minster Narendra Modi has warned that India needs to be wary of new form of FDI – Foreign Destructive Ideology and #AndolanJeevis – habitual protesters. He was responding to the motion of thanks on the President’s Address in the Rajya Sabha today.
He said India, today, is a land of opportunities and the eyes of the world are on India. There are expectations from India and there is confidence that India will contribute to the betterment of our planet. As India’ enters the 75th year of its Independence, we should try to make it a celebration of inspiration and rededicate ourselves to the pledges of our vision for India of 2047 when it’s Independence will be a century PM said.
While speaking on the farm laws and its related topics, he said that problems of agriculture should be resolved and there is a need to work for this. The Prime Minister invited all the parties to move forward for the welfare of the farmers.
On MSP, the Prime Minister reiterated, “MSP is there, MSP was there. MSP will remain in the future. Affordable ration for the poor will continue. Mandis will be modernised.” For the welfare of the farmers, we need to rise above political calculations, he said.
India should be wary of new form of Foreign Destructive Ideology and AndolanJeevis
The PM then warned that India needs to be saved from a new kind of FDI – Foreign Destructive Ideology. “I am seeing that now a days a new FDI has entered the market known as Foreign Destructive Ideology. We have to save the country from it”, said Prime Minister Modi.
These comments come in the backdrop of a toolkit shared by activist Greta Thunberg which shed light on the internationally coordinated farmer protests.
Prime Minister Modi also took on professional protesters my terming them as Aandolanjeevis, and warned that India needs to protect itself from such people.
“We are aware of words like Shramjeevi, Buddhijeevi, but I am observing that a new Jamaat has recently taken birth in India known as Aandolanjeevi”, said Prime Minister Modi.
“A new entity has come up in country-‘Andolan Jivi’. They can be spotted wherever there is protest, be it agitation by lawyers, students, or labourers, explicitly or implicitly. They cannot live without ANDOLAN, we have to identify them & protect nation from them”, said PM Narendra Modi.
“All these Aandolanjeevis are Parjeevis (Parasites)”, he added.
Prime Minister Modi also quoted former prime minister Manmohan Singh’s pro-farm reform views to state that he is implementing what Manmohan Singh once said.
“There are other rigidities because of the who marketing regime setup in the 1930s which prevent our farmers from selling their produce where they get the highest rate of return. It is our intention to remove all those handicaps which come in the way of India realising its vast potential as one large common market”, Prime Minister Modi quoted Manmohan Singh in the Rajya Sabha.
Prime Minister Modi added that he hopes those performing a U-Turn now will hopefully pay heed to Manmohan Singh’s comments advocating freedom for farmers to sell their produce and a common farming market.
Effective handling of the Covid pandemic is success of the nation
The Prime Minister said that effective handling of the Covid pandemic is not a success of a party or individual but is a success of the nation and should be celebrated as such. India has seen days when there was a large threat of polio, small pox. Nobody knew whether India will get a vaccine or how many people will get it.
From those days, Modi said, we are now here- when our nation is making vaccines for the world and undertaking world largest vaccine drive. This increases our self-confidence. The COVID-19 period has added new strength to our federal structure and the spirit of cooperative federalism, he noted.
“Indian democracy is not a western institution but a human institution”
The Prime Minister addressed the criticism of Indian democracy and said that Indian democracy is not a western institution but a human institution. It is imperative to alert the countrymen about the all-round attack on Indian Nationalism, he said.
Quoting Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, the Prime Minister asserted, Indian nationalism is neither narrow, nor selfish or aggressive, It is based on the notion of Satyam, Shivam Sundaram. “India is not merely the world’s largest democracy. India is the ‘Mother of Democracy’ and this is our ethos. Our nation’s temperament is democratic”, said the Prime Minister.
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