RAJKOT: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday summed up his eight years in office so far as a relentless pursuit of the India envisioned by Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, without once allowing or doing — even if inadvertently — anything that would “make citizens of the country hang their hands in shame”.
“Mahatma Gandhi wanted an India in which the poor, Dalits, Adivasis and women are empowered; cleanliness and health are a way of life, and the economy is based on swadeshi (local) solutions,” he told a gathering at the inauguration of the KD Paravadiya Multispeciality Hospital at Atkot, about 55km from Rajkot.
