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Prime Minister Narendra Modi sets Panch-Pran target for India @ 100 in 2047

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that the time had come to cleanse the country of corruption and nepotism. He asked people to have nafrat (hatred) for these twin evils that went beyond politics. He also set a Panch-Pran (five resolves) target to make India a developed nation in 25 years. 

“The nation should now only be setting big goals. That big goal is a developed India and nothing less,” Mr Modi asserted in his ninth consecutive address from the ramparts of Red Fort on the country’s 76th Independence Day as he also highlighted the challenges of dynastic politics.

India had entered a decisive era in its battle against corruption which was “eating the country like termites”, he said, adding that corruption and nepotism were the two main challenges for the nation. 

Dressed in a traditional kurta and churidar, paired with a blue jacket and a white safa with tricolour stripes, Mr Modi unfurled the national flag amid a 21-gun salute by the indigenously-developed howitzer gun, ATAGS, which he noted with pride was the first from Red Fort in 75 years. 

Mr Modi said that it was a historic day for India and the completion of 75 years of Independence was a time to move forward with a new resolve. He also spoke strongly for cooperative federalism, celebrating the country’s diversity, unity among citizens, gender equality and research and innovation.

The prime minister cautioned the countrymen against complacency over the country’s achievements in the last 75 years and said that it had to focus its strength now on fulfilling the Panch Pran in the next 25 years in the run-up to the centenary of its independence. 

He spelt out the five pledges as a resolve for a developed India; removing any trace of the colonial mindset; taking pride in our legacy; our strength of unity; and fulfilling the duties of citizens, which include prime minister and chief ministers as well.

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