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PM Narendra Modi Lauds Patel’s Vision, Says J-K Decision Inspired By Him

Darpan News Desk IANS, 17 Sep, 2019 10:33 PM

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday lauded the vision of Sardar Patel, saying the BJP-led government’s decision on Jammu and Kashmir last month was an inspiration from the former home minister of India.

     

    The Union government’s decision on Kashmir is inspired by Sardar Patel and is an attempt to find solution to a decades-old problem, Modi, who turned 69 on Tuesday, said at a public rally here.


    The government on August 5 revoked Article 370 which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir and proposed that the state be bifurcated into union territories--Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.


    The PM said the Hyderabad Liberation Day is a result of Sardar Patel’s vision. Observed on September 17, it marks the day in 1948 when the erstwhile Hyderabad state was annexed to the Indian Union.


    Modi said he was happy to see the rising number of visitors to the Statue of Unity. While the 133-year-old Statue of Liberty got around 10,000 visitors per day, about 8,500 people visited the 11-month-old Statue of Unity daily, he said.


    The Sardar Sarovar project is catering to the needs of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan and had benefited people in these four states, Modi said.


    On a visit to his home state, Modi earlier on Tuesday offered prayers to goddess Narmada at the Sardar Sarovar dam.


    Accompanied by Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, Modi offered prayers as part of the state government’s Namami Devi Narmada Mahotsav celebrations being held to mark the dam receiving water to its full capacity.


    Modi also visited the Butterfly Garden in Kevadiya and named the saffron-coloured plain tiger butterfly as the state butterfly.


    Modi began the day with a visit to the Statue of Unity and the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the river Narmada.


    The Statue of Unity, billed as the tallest in the world, was inaugurated by him on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s birth anniversary on October 31 last year.


    He also tweeted a video of the statue, taken from his helicopter.


    Modi arrived at Kevadiya on Tuesday morning to take part in the ‘Namami Narmada’ festival being celebrated by the Gujarat government to mark the filling up of the dam to its full reservoir level of 138.68 metres.


    For the first time since the height of the dam was raised in 2017, the water level reached its highest peak at 138.68 metres on Sunday evening.


    Modi, along with Rupani, then performed ‘puja’ at the dam site to ‘welcome’ the water of river Narmada, the lifeline of Gujarat.

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