![]() ![]() The country also owes gratitude to Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev, Mangal Pandey, Tatya Tope, and Tatya Tope. On the 76th anniversary of the country's independence, PM Modi gave a speech to the country from the Red Fort's ramparts, thanking Bapu (Mahatma Gandhi), Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Vinayak Savarkar for dedicating their lives to doing the right thing.Īlso Read: PM Narendra Modi lists out five pledges for India to fulfill its dreams by 2047 PM Modi also mentioned, during his speech, Mahatma Gandhi, BR Ambedkar, Ram Manohar Lohia among others.Īlso Read: 2022 Independence Day: Indian Navy hoists Tricolour in every continent Meanwhile, while addressing the nation, Jawaharlal Nehru received honours from PM Narendra Modi for his contributions to the independence movement and nation-building. We have to build the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell. This is no time for petty and destructive criticism, no time for ill-will or blaming others. To the people of India, whose representatives we are, we make an appeal to join us with faith and confidence in this great adventure. Those dreams are for India, but they are also for the world, for all the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart Peace has been said to be indivisible so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments. That may be beyond us, but as long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.Īnd so we have to labour and to work, and work hard, to give reality to our dreams. The ambition of the greatest man of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer. ![]() That future is not one of ease or resting but of incessant striving so that we may fulfil the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today. Nevertheless, the past is over and it is the future that beckons to us now. Before the birth of freedom we have endured all the pains of labour and our hearts are heavy with the memory of this sorrow. The responsibility rests upon this Assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?įreedom and power bring responsibility. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.Īt the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. ![]() Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. #IndiaAt75 /pGCnJzwIg8- Congress August 14, 2022 75 years ago, this day, at the stroke of midnight, India made a tryst with destiny.Ī pact where all forces kneeled down before the valour of our forefathers, and gave us the freedom we enjoy today.
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