‘Need to build self-reliant India by 2047’
President Murmu, in her address, calls upon citizens to focus on their duty to achieve the goal
India has entered Amrit Kaal completing its 75 years of Independence and in this citizens have to focus on their duty towards building an ‘aatmanirbhar’ (self-reliant) India, said President Droupadi Murmu in her pre-budget address to the joint session of Parliament on Tuesday.
“By 2047, we have to build a nation that will be connected to the pride of the past and which will have all the golden chapters of modernity. We have to build an India that will be ‘Aatmanirbhar’ and capable to fulfill its humanitarian duties,” President Murmu said. In her maiden address to the joint sitting of Lok Sabha and Rajay Sabha in the central hall of Parliament President Murmu said: “India has entered Amrit Kaal completing its 75 years of Independence. Amrit Kaal is a period of 100 years of Independence and making of a developed India. These 25 years is a period for all citizens to focus on duty.”
The President described an India without poverty and full of prosperity.
“That should be an India that will not have poverty, whose middle class will also be prosperous, an India whose youth
and women will stand at the front to show a path to society and the country, an India whose youth stays two steps ahead of
time,” she said.
President Murmu also lauded India’s growing position on the world stage and said that
the country is providing solutions to the world.
“Today, India’s self-confidence is at its highest and the world is looking at her from a different perspective. India is providing solutions to the world,” the President said.
This is President Murmu’s first budget session speech since assuming office in July last year. The President arrived in a ceremonial escort to Parliament to address the joint session at the start of the Budget session
Meanwhile, ahead of the budget presentation on Wednesday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) high command has formed a committee to take the benefits of the budget among the public and take their feedback.
As per the BJP sources, the Committee formed on January 28, comprises nine party leaders from different states, which will be headed by former Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi.
The nine members inlcude party leader Vivek Venkataswamy, national general secretary Sunil Bansal, national Kisan Morcha president Raj Kumar Chahar, national Yuva Morcha president MP Tejaswi Surya, Union Government’s Chief Financial Affairs Adviser and MLA Ashok Lahiri.