Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked the ruling NDA MPs to organise Swadeshi Mela to promote indigenous products, stressing that self-reliance is the way to power India’s rise when its increasing strength is bound to face some challenges.
Addressing the MPs a day before the vice presidential election, Modi kept the focus on the need for promoting made-in-India products and taking to the masses the wide impact of the GST rate cuts by holding meetings with people and traders in their constituencies, especially during the festival season between Navratri and Diwali, sources said.
In his speech, the PM also asked parliamentarians to highlight the positive effects of a recent law passed by Parliament banning online games involving money. These games were destroying so many lives, and the Government ’s decision will help a huge number of families across the country but it has not received adequate attention, he said.
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju later said that Modi was not referring to any country, while emphasising the need for self-reliance. “The prime minister said that some challenges will come up when India is emerging as a strong nation and it needs to be aatmanirbhar (self-reliant) to continue on the path to become a developed nation,” he said.