For Independence Day speech, Modi gets over 9,000 suggestions

“I am merely an instrument. It is not one single person who makes that address, but it is the collective voice of 1.25 billion of my countrymen that resounds from the Red Fort.”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received over 9,000 suggestions for his Independence Day speech. There are over 9,000 submissions made on the MyGov portal of the government as well as on the Narendra Modi App.

Suggestions on a variety of issues such as education, cleanliness, environment, digitisation and female literacy for his forthcoming Independence Day speech have been made.

Modi had during his monthly radio broadcast, 'Mann Ki Baat,' had invited suggestions for his Independence Day speech. Subsequently thousands of suggestions had been received.

In his last 'Mann Ki Baat' radio programme on July 30, Modi had said, "On August 15, I get an opportunity to communicate with the country from the ramparts of the Red Fort.

"I am merely an instrument. It is not one single person who makes that address, but it is the collective voice of 1.25 billion of my countrymen that resounds from the Red Fort."

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