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Former president Pranab Mukherjee congratulated fellow countrymen, in India and abroad, on its 72nd Independence Day and urged them to defend and preserve the multi-cultural, multi-racial and multi-lingual society. “Our Founding Fathers, after much deliberation and drawing from our ancient ethos, envisioned a Secular State, free of religious, caste or racial distinction. We must ensure that in every walk of life, the characteristics of a multi-cultural, multi-lingual and multi-racial society is defended, preserved and protected,” Mukherjee said. LIVE Updates: PM Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech at Red Fort
In a letter, Mukherjee paid tribute to the freedom fighters and martyrs who laid down their lives for a free country. He also commended the first independent government under former prime minister Pt Jawaharlal Nehru and all the subsequent governments for making India rise from a devastating colonial economy and reach the position it is in today.
“We are the inheritors of an epic legacy that commits us to Freedom, Equality, Fraternity and Integrity. Becoming a sovereign nation 71 years back, we achieved much under Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru and every subsequent government that followed. From a devastated colonial economy, we have reached where we are today,” he added.
Mukherjee said the country’s founding fathers, seeking inspiration from our ancient ethos, envisioned a secular state free of any caste and racial distinctions. He urged the countrymen to preserve the essence of this democracy by participating in the task of nation-building and freeing the country from the constraints of illiteracy, hunger, poverty, and disease.
Mukherjee was the 13th president of India, serving his term from 2012 to 2017.
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