People gave resounding mandate for building new India: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (August 23) asserted that the resounding mandate of 2019 Lok Sabha polls was not just for a government, but for building a new India that focuses on ease of doing business while ensuring ease of living.

Addressing Indian community at the UNESCO headquarters here after inaugurating a memorial in honour of the victims of two Air India crashes in France in the 1950s and 1960s, Prime Minister Modi said that in new India, action is being taken against corruption, nepotism, loot of people’s money and terrorism.

In an apparent reference to the revocation of special status to Jammu and Kashmir, he said, “There is no scope for temporary in India. You would have seen that a country of 1.25 billion people, the land of Mahatma Gandhi, Gautam Buddha, Ram, Krishna, took 70 years to remove what was temporary.”

Asserting that people gave resounding mandate to the BJP government for building a new India, Modi, who is in France on the first leg of his three-nation tour, said that India is moving fast on the path of development.

On triple talaq, he said, “We did away with practice of triple talaq; injustice cannot be done to Muslim women in new India.”

Further, he said that India will achieve most of the climate change goals set for 2030, in the next year and a half. Also, he said that India will be free of tuberculosis in 2025.