Can’t litter our country and say Vande Mataram: Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi paying tributes to Swami Vivekananda during a function on the occasion of 125th anniversary of Vivekananda’s Chicago address and birth centenary of Deendayal Upadhyay in New Delhi on Monday. Photo: PTI
India isn’t the kind of place where people should be told what to eat and what not to, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday.
Modi was channelling Swami Vivekananda, who once spoke of “religion getting into the kitchen”, only apt since he was addressing a students’ convention on the occasion of Deendayal Upadhyay centenary celebrations, and the 125th anniversary of Vivekananda’s famous Chicago address. But analysts also saw his speech as another attempt by the prime minister to speak out against intolerance.
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