Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday urged the people to follow the idea of India as one nation, irrespective of caste, creed, sex and religion, and asked them to move together to make the country powerful.
Naidu, while speaking at the closing ceremony of year-long Haryana’s swarna jayanti celebrations in Hisar, also stressed the need for good governance to take the benefits of development to the people.
He said, “Irrespective of caste, creed, sex and religion, India is one nation, one country… It should be our target and it should be our culture. The idea of ‘vasudhaiva kutumbakam’ (the world is one family) is part of the Indian tradition.”
The Vice President said, younger generations had to be made aware of the country’s religion and culture. Our culture and tradition should always be preserved which we have inherited from our ancestors and that religion, tradition, ‘Bhartiyata’, Hindutva, Indianness should be preserved, he said.
Describing Haryana as “pious” land, he said that the country is aware of the state’s prosperous culture and tradition and that this land had given the gift of the ‘Bhagwad Gita’ to the world. He said President Ram Nath Kovind would inaugurate the International Gita Mahotsav in Kurukshetra on November 25.
Naidu also said, everybody should learn and know about the Hindi language. “I belonged to southern India and I did not study Hindi in my childhood. In our area at that time, a campaign against Hindi language was going on… I also participated in it. later I came to know that it was not possible to move ahead without knowing Hindi. Everybody should learn and know about Hindi,” said he.
The event was hosted by Bollywood actor Randeep Hooda, who took a round of the stadium holding the National Flag seared on a bike driven by a Commando.