15/08/2017
NEW DELHI, Aug 14: President Ram Nath Kovind today pitched for a partnership between citizens and the government to create a New India by 2022 that is a "compassionate society" and includes the "humanist component integral to the nation's DNA".
In his maiden address to the Nation on the eve of 71st Independence Day, Kovind remembered the role of leaders of Independence struggle including Jawaharlal Nehru.
He said the generation that brought us to freedom was diverse which included men and women from all parts of the country and a variety of "political and social thought".
Asking people to draw inspiration from freedom fighters, Kovind said there was a need to invoke the same spirit today for nation building.
"The stress on the moral basis of policy and action, belief in unity and discipline, faith in a synthesis of heritage and science, and promotion of the rule of law and of education all of it is located in a partnership between citizen and government," he said.
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