Narendra Modi's resolutions for India's 75th anniversary
From New Delhi's Red Fort, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a speech during the country's symbolic 75th Independence Day.
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This Monday morning, August 15, the Indian Prime Minister held a speech during the country's symbolic 75th Independence Day.
From the Red Fort in New Delhi, Narendra Modi wanted to outline development prospects for the next 25 years, even if it means turning his back on India's roots.
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With our correspondent in Bangalore
,
Côme Bastin
The leader's watchwords are hammered home: India first, “
make in India
”, and self-sufficient India.
Narendra Modi projected today towards the year 2047, which will mark the 100th anniversary of the Indian Republic: "
On this auspicious morning, we must resolve to make India a developed nation during the twenty-five coming years.
It should be our grand resolution that the country be a people-centered system in all parameters of development, which meets the hopes and aspirations of every human being.
Narendra Modi also paid tribute to the artisans of
Indian independence
such as Gandhi, Chandra Bose or Ambedkar.
Despite the plethora of flags on this day and the calls for unity, India remains crossed by deep divisions in memory.
The opposition regrets that
Nehru
, the first of India's prime ministers, is being increasingly erased by the ruling BJP party.
This figure of the Congress and independence party has thus disappeared from the leaflets of the state of Karnataka, led by Hindu nationalists.
The Congress party paid tribute in return to the country's first head of state on Monday.
Recently, the desire to move the Parliament from New Delhi and change the shape of the Lion Statue, symbol of India, has accentuated the feeling that the BJP wanted to break with the past of the country.
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To read: On August 15, 1947, like the phoenix, ancient India rose from its ashes
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