Friday, September 20, 2024

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PM Narendra Modi today released a video message asking people to use light to challenge the darkness spread by corona

Amid a 21-day nationwide lockdown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today addressed the nation with a video message and asked people to show up on their balconies and gates once again, without breaching social distancing, to display India’s collective strength in the fight against coronavirus. PM Modi urged all Indians to switch off all other lights and stand at doors or balconies to light candles or diyas, torches or mobile flashlights for 9 minutes this Sunday.

“Experience the collective resolve, the collective superpower of 130 crore Indians. This will give us the strength to fight, as well as the confidence to win, in this hour of crisis,” PM Modi said.

The way you greeted and appreciated the coronavirus fighters on March 22 was exemplary; everyone everywhere is trying to emulate you. You have shown to the world that an entire country can unite and fight against a crisis like this. Now that everyone is locked in at home, many would be feeling alone and wondering what they could do alone. It is true that we are at home and under a lockdown but we are not alone, he said. We, 130 billion people, are all in it together, and we must recognise this, he added.

PM Modi clarified that nobody has to break the rules of social distancing. People will not gather in groups. People should sit alone for a while, remember God and the strength of the deities, and recognise our combined strength as a nation of 1.3 billion people

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Vijay Upadhyay

Vijay Upadhyay is a career journalist with 23 years of experience in various English & Hindi national dailies. He has worked with UNI, DD/AIR & The Pioneer, among other national newspapers. He currently heads the United News Room, a news agency engaged in providing local news content to national newspapers and television news channels