Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the future of Bharat
and Gujarat lies in their libraries. He asserted by bringing children and youth
towards the library, the future of the entire nation will be improved.
Shah was addressing a gathering in Gujarat’s
Gandhinagar district after inaugurating the “Samau Shaheed Memorial”.
The memorial was built at a cost of Rs 2 crore as a
tribute to 12 revolutionaries from Mansa who were hanged by the Britishers
during the revolt of 1857. Shah also inaugurated a library.
The Shaheed Memorial in Samau village will be a sacred
place for promoting patriotism, he said.
The Gandhinagar MP said he is a bibliophile and that
books have played a crucial role in building his personality.
“Books have played a special role in building my
personality. The future of a country is formed in a library and it gives an
opportunity to know one’s language and culture,” said the Union Home Minister.
He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, when he was
Chief Minister of Gujarat, launched the Vanche Gujarat Mission (Read Gujarat
Mission) to inculcate the habit of reading in the younger generation.
“When children and youth were moving away from the
language, PM Modi had launched the Vanche Gujarat campaign with a resolve to
make Gujarat rich in knowledge through reading and enriched the libraries of
the State with many books.”
Invoking the success of ISRO’s third lunar mission and
the historic passage of Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, which turned into a law
after receiving Presidential assent on September 29, Shah said, “Be it G20,
Chandrayaan 3 or women’s reservation bill, India is reaching to unprecedented
heights under the guidance of PM Narendra Modi.”
The minister flew down to his home State on Friday. On
Saturday, he watched the Bharat vs Pakistan World Cup match at Narendra Modi
Stadium in Ahmedabad.
ANI
