‘Can’t paint big picture on small canvas’: PM Modi on building stronger India
Hindustan TimesNEW DELHI: In his last speech from the Central Hall of the old Parliament building, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India has to work on a bigger canvas in the next 25 years of Amrit Kaal, and that the reforms carried out in the country must cater to the aspirations of 1.4 billion Indians. Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets parliamentarians during an event organised in the Central Hall of Parliament on the occasion of the shifting of Parliament to the new building on Tuesday He also suggested that the old building be renamed Constitution House, a befitting tribute to the makers of modern India. We can’t make ourselves hostages to political gains and losses.” Speaking about the old parliament building, PM Modi said: ”The Central Hall makes us nostalgic but also inspires us. More than 4,000 bills were passed.” PM Modi, who referred to the historic laws passed in the old building including the one in 2019 to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, also took a swipe at the Congress government led by Rajiv Gandhi that piloted a law to negate the Supreme Court verdict in the Shah Banu case.