New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech from the rampart of historic Red Fort has led to debate in Pakistan, with television channels, journalists and commentators talking about what he said and what he did not say.
Kazmi also questioned the emphasis in Pakistani leaders’ Independence Day speeches, saying that the country’s prime minister and president had devoted considerable attention to India and Afghanistan. Altaf described the celebrations as having turned into largely military events. “Our people did not fight the freedom struggle. The Congress fought it.
The reaction came a day after Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif used his August 14 address to lash out at India and present himself as a strong leader capable of confronting its neighbour. Journalist Wasim Altaf said the original Partition plan had set August 15 as the date. Some of the country’s earliest postage stamps also showed August 15 as the date of independence, and it celebrated its first Independence Day on the same day in 1948, according to him. He said the date was later changed following a cabinet meeting in 1948. The argument, according to Altaf, was that India was also celebrating independence on August 15, leading Pakistan to adopt August 14 instead in order to establish a separate identity.
“We became independent at the same time,” he said. We separated after independence,” he said and contrasted the way the two countries celebrated Independence Day.
Earlier reporting noted: In a post on the social media platform X, Rijiju shared a list, he said, was the one PM Modi was referring to in his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Saturday. He also pointed to the inclusion of Vande Mataram in this year’s celebrations. His remarks had caused an uproar in the opposition.
India’s Independence Day programme placed emphasis on young people and the government’s vision of a developed India by 2047, according to him.
Earlier reporting noted: ‘PM Modi didn’t say…’: Kiren Rijiju shares ‘dimagi naxals’ list after Opposition’s ‘proud to be’ jibe Union minister of parliamentary affairs Kiren Rijiju on Sunday hit out at opposition parties over their criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Maoist mentality” remarks, insisting that the PM did not refer to opposition leaders as ‘dimagi naxal’, or people with a Naxal mindset. Earlier reporting noted: Rijiju’s remarks came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that “dimagi naxals” need to be identified and “isolated”.
