Former Union Minister and economist Subramanian Swamy on Monday opined that preservation of Indian traditions can help build a new India and added that the country can progress faster if the people across the country believe they are one with the Indians having the “same DNA” and do not engage in dividing society in the name of caste or religion.
Delivering the Sardar Panikkar Memorial Lecture at the 60 th Foundation Day of the Regional Institute of Education (RIE) here, Mr. Swamy, while giving a call for the renaissance of the country’s traditions, said India believes in taking all religions together and cited the examples of how the religions were respected in India. Jews were persecuted all over the world but not in India and therefore Israel stood with us, he explained.
The former Minister advised the people not to succumb to the forces that try to divide the society in the name of religion and fall to the propaganda that destabilises peace.
