Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Pradhanmantri-Sanghralaya in New Delhi, paid tributes to Baba sahib Ambedkar, and acknowledged and greeted the past prime ministers’ families.
This Museum will be a great knowledge centre for future generations as it will showcase the life and contributions of all Prime Ministers of India. Spread over more than 10,000 square meters, the Museum has exhibits related to all Indian Prime Ministers, including rare photographs, speeches, video clips, newspaper clippings, interviews, and original writings.
The Museum engagingly offers information using cutting-edge technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality and interactive screens. Commenting on the logo of the Museum, which has many hands holding the Chakra, Modi said that the Chakra is the symbol of 24-hour continuity and resolve for prosperity and hard work. He emphasised that this resolve, consciousness, and strength will define India’s development in 25 years.
The Prime Minister underlined the changing world order and India’s growing status in that order. “Today, when a new world order is emerging, the world is looking at India with a hope and confidence, then India will also have to increase its efforts to rise to the occasion”, Modi said. Modi reiterated his appreciation of the contribution of all the governments since independence. He said, “Every government formed in independent India has contributed to taking the country to its height today. I have repeated this thing many times from Red Fort also.”
He said that the Museum has also become a living reflection of the shared heritage of each government. “Every Prime Minister of the country has contributed immensely towards achieving the goals of constitutional democracy, the Prime Minister continued. “To remember them is to know the journey of independent India. He added that people coming here would be familiar with the contribution of the former Prime Ministers of the country, their background, their struggles and creations”.
Modi expressed pride in that many of the Prime Ministers came from ordinary families. The fact that such leaders coming from extremely poor farmer families reach the position of the Prime Minister strengthens the faith in Indian democracy and its traditions, he said.
Noting India’s status as the mother of democracy, Modi said, “The great feature of India’s democracy is that it has been continuously changing with the passage of time. In every era, in every generation, there has been a continuous effort to make democracy more modern and empowered.”
Recalling India’s rich history and prosperous era, the Modi laid stress on spreading awareness about the correct picture of India’s heritage and present. He said the government’s efforts to bring back the stolen heritage from abroad, celebrating places of the glorious heritage, preserving memories of the freedom fighters in places like Jalianwala Memorial, Panch Teerth commemorating Baba saheb, Freedom Fighter Museum, tribal history museum are step in that direction.