India’s diversity has drawn world towards country, says PM Modi

New Delhi (PTI): PM

Narendra Modi has said Indians’ natural and instinctive love for diversity is the nation’s real strength and has kept it united through centuries, noting that it is this aspect of the country which has drawn the world towards it.

“India is home to many cultures, cuisines, customs and lifestyles, where people belonging to different communities, practising different faiths, speaking different languages, observing different rituals not only coexist but also celebrate each other’s diverse way of life,’” he said in a letter to Nazakat Choudhary, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch.

Choudhary had visited Assam as part of the government’s ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’ programme that envisages bringing people from different regions together to know each oth er’s cultures and traditions. wrote to the prime minister as to how the trip inspired him and the forts bring states and cultures closer to each other, and strengthens the nation’s unity.

The northeast region is now “na dil se dur, na Dilli se dur’” (neither far from the heart nor from Delhi) as the government has constantly strived for the development of all the states there, the prime minister said.

Officials said he referred to the “unprecedented development’” in these states in various sectors during the last few years.

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