New Delhi: Raising concerns over the incidents of communal tensions in the country, President Pranab Mukherjee said that core values of India's civilisation must be maintained. His remarks came against the backdrop of the man who was lynched by an enraged mob allegedly over rumours that he stored beef.
"Core values of diversity, tolerance and plurality must be kept in mind, we cannot allow these values of India's civilisation to be given a slip," he said.
"These core civilization values keep us together over the centuries. Many ancient civilizations have fallen. But that is right that aggression after aggression, long foreign rule, the Indian civilization has survived because of its core civilizational values and we must keep that in mind. And if we keep those core values in mind, nothing can prevent our democracy to move," he added.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, fromer Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah and MPs were also present at the function.
He said the country has made tremendous progress in many sectors and there is no limit to doing more. "There is no limit. We will have to do much more," he said.
He added that there is no end to work in the President's office which is considered strictly Constitutional and recalled how his friends jokingly commented that he would not have anything much to do in the post.
"I in my own way am making my contribution to make the country more important. After three years of coming here, I recognise that much more is to be done. There is no end to working in the President's office, which is considered strictly constitutional," he said.
Comments
0 comment