Let us create 'New India' of our dreams by 2022: Modi

On the 75th anniversary of the Quit India Movement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the people to take pledge to free India from poverty, dirt, corruption, terrorism, casteism, communalism and create a 'New India' of our dreams by 2022.

Modi tweeted out, "we salute all the great women & men who took part in the movement. Under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, the entire nation came together with the aim of attaining freedom."

He also tweeted,''In 1942, the need of the hour was to free India from colonialism. Today, 75 years later the issues are different.''

This year's theme is "Sankalp se Siddhi- the attainment through resolve. Earlier, Modi termed the month of August as a month of revolution as the non-cooperation movement was launched on August 1, 1920, Quit-India movement on August 9, 1942 and on August 15, 1947 India became independent.

The Quit India Movement was an important milestone in the Indian freedom struggle. Under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, people across India came together to uproot imperialism.

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