Help Me with My Independence Day Speech: PM Modi’s Plea to Voters

Earlier, Prime Minister paid tributes to father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat.

The Prime Minister was received by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, Minister of State (MoS) for Defence Dr. Subhash Bhamre, Defence Secretary G. Mohan Kumar and General Officer Commanding (GOC) Delhi area Lt General Vijay Singh. “Post offices will be converted into payment banks”, he said while addressing the nation from the Red Fort here on the 70th Independence Day, adding the move will create a network of banks which will help in transfering benefits to the people.

Mr Modi said, 99.5 per cent of past dues of sugarcane farmers have been cleared. Similarly, now, in just one minute, it had become possible to generate as many as 15,000 railway tickets, he said.

People can contribute on either the MyGov open forum or the Narendra Modi site and mobile application, it said.

“There was a time when people were more scared of income tax authorities than police officials, particularly among middle class families”. We have to change this situation and I will change it. They said the drill was enacted to test a scenario where three terrorists storm the said station and take passengers as hostages. He said, LED bulbs being sold at 50 rupees each against 350 rupees previously.

“From panchayat to parliament and from village head to prime minister, everyone will have to understand their responsibility… today, more than “Karya”, I want to talk about “Karya Sanskriti” of the government”. “I am happy to inform you that we have distributed 13 crore such bulbs”.

Prime minister said, this government has made One Rank One Pension has become a reality. “We do not delay our task”, Modi said. “You all must save energy and take part in helping our nation”, Modi said.

Prime Minister said, 77 crore LED bulbs can save 20,000 MW of electricity worth 1.25 lakh crore rupees. There were intelligence inputs earlier that militants might try to attack security forces in the run up to the Independence Day in Jammu and Kashmir, sources said. People do not need any recommendation now to secure passports, he said.

On Monday, Modi also hit out at Pakistan for supporting terrorism.