Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that theological and political disparities should be put aside for the sake of growth and promised that no one would be left behind on the road to prosperity because of their faith.
“Politics can wait, culture can wait. But the country’s growth cannot wait,’ he said at the centennial celebrations of the Aligarh Muslim University, which he called “oemini-India” and praised for its diversity.
Modi said that the world is now going down a direction where people will profit from growth without prejudice, and where they are assured of their fundamental rights.
“The country is moving on a path today where no one should be left behind because of their religion,” he said.
He said that the government’s healthcare system benefited everybody without prejudice, adopting the slogan “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas.”
Listing some of them, he said, “What belongs to the nation belongs to any person. Everyone’s going to understand it.”
In a video conference speech, he said that the progress could not be seen through the political lens. A postage stamp commemorating 100 years of the AMU was issued.
He said that there is space outside â â ̈ ̈ ̈ siyasatâ ̈ ̈ ̈ ̈ (policy) and satta”It is common to have disparities in culture. Yet when it comes to securing national targets, these gaps should be put aside.
Modi included economic growth, education, standard of living and nationalism (‘rastravaad”) among the popular priorities.
These are some of the topics on which we cannot disagree in the name of our political or ideological (vaicharik) compulsions, he said.
It was the first time in more than five decades that the Prime Minister took part in the AMU case, after Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1964. The PM TM address also comes in the light of occasional demonstrations by AMU student groups over topics such as the new Citizenship Amendment Act and the targeting of the campus by some BJP politicians in recent months.
He said that when people come together for the goal of growth, certain elements can feel awkward.
