First condition for development – Peace, Unity & Harmony: Modi

First condition for development – Peace, Unity & Harmony: Modi – Unique Times

Invoking Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s work for national integration, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that “unity, peace and harmony” was the first condition if India has got to move forward and attain new heights of development.
In an occasion of marking the 140th birth anniversary of Patel, PM asserted that “Being unity, our biggest strength… we’ve to move forward with the mantra of unity, peace and harmony”, against the backdrop of protests by artistes, writers and scientists over alleged “rising intolerance” after the Dadri slaying, beef row and other incidents.

Modi also used the occasion to take a dig at family line politics, by expressing that it had become a bane of our politics and recalled that Patel never promoted anyone from family in political life.

At the National Integration Day to mark the birth anniversary of India’s first Deputy Prime Minister, Modi flagged off ‘run for unity’. Modi asked people to take forward Patel’s message that the nation can sacrifice anything for its unity.

Irrespective of our language and attachment of our feelings and beliefs to any inspiration or system from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Atak to Cuttuck, if our mission is to take Mother India to new heights in the world, then the first condition for that’s unity, peace and harmony.

“The country will move 125 crore steps in one go if 125 crore Indians with the above said mantra walk one step together shoulder to shoulder.”

The Prime Minister also announced that ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’ scheme will soon be announced under which one state can choose another state annually and then promote its language and culture. “I have formed a small committee which is preparing its modalities,” he said.

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