Our ideologies should not go against national interest: PM Modi to JNU students

Sharing his expertise of Emergency with the scholars of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday mentioned one doesn’t have to sacrifice his or her personal ideology to combat for a typical, larger trigger. “When people joined Mahatma Gandhi, they didn’t leave their ideologies. I have seen Emergency days. There were so many people from various political beliefs — from Congress, from RSS. But we were all united by a common cause of national interest,” PM Modi mentioned, unveiling a statue of Swami Vivekananda on the college campus by way of video-conferencing.

“Placing individual ideologies before national good is wrong,” the Prime Minister mentioned in his speech the place he additionally gave some tricks to JNU college students. “Don’t accept status quo. Swami Vivekananda never accepted status quo. Do’t forget to laugh. I often see young people so serious as if the burden of the entire world is on them,” PM Modi mentioned.

His speech additionally dwelled on politics, reforms and reforms introduced by the BJP authorities. Talking about reforms and politics, Modi mentioned there was a time when good reforms have been thought-about to be unhealthy politics. Urging JNU college students to debate on this, the PM requested, “How did good reforms become good politics? You at JNU must deliberate on this.”

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi elaborated on the reforms taken by his authorities, he mentioned the brand new National Education Police is predicated on the coverage of inclusion, which is able to ensure college students can get entry to universities like JNU.

“All our reforms are aimed at development. For years, farmers remained a topic of political discussion. But we gave them security and then started reforms,” PM Modi mentioned. Slamming the earlier governments for dissociating the poor from the system, the Prime Minister mentioned, “Now they have house, toilet, electricity, paid internet connection like others.”