Independence Day speech: PM Modi invites ideas, suggestions from all

If anyone has any message for India's 70th Independence Day, he or she might want to write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Prime Minister might read it out when he addresses the nation on August 15 from the iconic Red Fort.  

PM Modi proposed the same in his latest Mann ki Baat address. 

In his latest Mann Ki Baat session yesterday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi touched different issues including the upcoming 70th Independence Day. In his address to the nation, Modi urged that the nation should not just observe Independence Day but also celebrate 75 th anniversary of Quit India Movement on August 8.

He asked the countrymen to celebrate these events like a festival by creating an atmosphere of nationalism. "This should not remain a government function but a celebration of the countrymen. Like a Diwali, it should be our own festival," the PM said hoping that people will send pictures filled with nationalism to his App.

In a move to make his the Independence Day speech more participatory, PM Modi invited suggestions from people which can be included in his speech.

"You may be having something which you would want to be told to the nation from the Red Fort. "I invite you to write to me whatever feelings you have, what you feel that as your representative, as your 'pradhan sevak' (prime servant), I should say from the Red Fort... Give suggestions, give advice, give new ideas. I will try to convey those to all the countrymen...," the Prime Minister said.

"I invite you to write to me whatever feelings you have, what you feel that as your representative, as your 'pradhan sevak ' (prime servant), I should say from the Red Fort... Give suggestions, give advice, give new ideas. I will try to convey those to all the countrymen...," the Prime Minister said.

"I don't want that whatever is spoken from the ramparts of the Red Fort is only what the Prime Minister wants to say.

Whatever is spoken from the ramparts of the Red Fort should be what 125 crore countrymen want to say," he added.

Other highlights of Modi's radio presentation was an emphasis on the passage of Afforestation bill, wishing the Indian contingent for Rio Olympics, expressing concern for floods in Assam and Bihar, innovation in technology and tribute to former president APJ Abdul Kalam.