Came to witness the historic retreat ceremony at Hussainiwala border in Ferozepur district, thousands of people from across the country on Sunday take a new India pledge: Sankalp se Sidhi to strengthen the motherland and to make India free of factors acting as stumbling blocks in its progress.
They pledged to make India terrorism, communalism and poverty free. People also pledged to keep India clean.
Amritsar-based unit of the Directorate of Field Publicity (DFP) of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, in coordination with the Border Security Force (BSF), organised the special oath taking ceremony as part of the New India Movement-’Sankalp Se Sidhi’.
Earlier, the same ceremony was organized at Attari-Wagah Joint Check Post in Amritsar’ on August 23. Over 15,000 people from various parts of the country pledged here to weed out these enemies of development.
People also vowed in one voice to make the country corruption free to strengthen it further to touch new heights.
Referring to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s commitment to take India to new heights, Field Publicity Officer Rajesh Bali, while administering the oath, said that when the countrymen pledge together, the nation is bound to touch new horizons in every field.
Border Security Force, Punjab Frontiers, Inspector General Mukul Goel lauded the people who had come in large number there to watch the retreat ceremony and to boost the morale of the BSF, the first line of defence.
Quoting Winston that “when there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you”, he said that we can unitedly take the challenges head on which the country is facing now a days.