LIVE: India has shown how to turn a challenge into an opportunity, says PM

India has entered the ‘Amrit Kaal’ of its independence. The next 25 years will not only be a period of national development and glory but also an occasion when the country will play an important role in giving direction to the rest of the world. Speaking at an event, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said for realising the vision of India becoming a $5 Trillion Economy, the nation’s Business leaders, State Governments, and Visionaries will have to collectively work towards this singular agenda and drive ‘Economic Change.’ He further said, “We used to have dams built and no canal networks, it’s like building a six storey building with no stairs or lifts. We had mines but no logistics abilities to transport the coal. We have power plants but not good enough transmission lines. We’ve reimagined infrastructure as one large plan and not restricted it to silos.”

The Election Commission on Friday recognised the Eknath Shinde-led faction as the real Shiv Sena and ordered allocation of the “bow and arrow” poll symbol to it. In a 78-page order on the protracted battle for control of the organisation, the Commission allowed the Uddhav Thackeray faction to keep the “flaming torch” poll symbol allocated to it till the completion of the assembly bypolls in the state. The Commission said MLAs backing Eknath Shinde got nearly 76 per cent of votes polled in favour of the 55 winning Shiv Sena candidates in the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly polls. The Uddhav Thackeray faction’s MLAs got 23.5 per cent of votes polled in favour of the winning Shiv Sena candidates, the three-member Commission said in a unanimous order.