Mann Ki Baat: PM announces ‘Meri Mati Mera Desh’ campaign, silent on Manipur
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday spoke about the imminent the launch of a campaign to honour India’s martyred men and women. Addressing the nation on ‘Mann Ki Baat’, the prime minister said as part of the campaign, several programmes will be organised across the country in memory of martyrs. “In the memory of these luminaries, special inscriptions will also be installed in lakhs of village panchayats.
Under this campaign, an ‘Amrit Kalash Yatra’ will also be organised across the country. This yatra, carrying soil in 7500 urns from every corner of the country, will reach Delhi. It will also carry with it saplings from different parts of the country.
An ‘Amrit Vatika’ will be built near the National War Memorial by fusing the soil and saplings. This ‘Amrit Vatika’ will also become a grand symbol of ‘Ek Bharat Shresth Bharat’," he said. Ahead of India’s 77th Independence Day on 15 August, Modi said the country should remember those who lay down their lives for its freedom.
Modi added, “I have also received a large number of such letters this time that give a lot of satisfaction to the mind. These letters have been written by those Muslim women who have recently come from Haj pilgrimage. This journey of theirs is very special in many ways.
These are women who have performed Hajj without any male companion or mehram, and the number is not fifty or hundred, but more than four thousand. This is a huge transformation," he said. He noted that the changes that have been made to the Hajj policy in the past few years have been ‘highly appreciated’.
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