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Let's celebrate our Nari Shakti on Diwali: Modi

| @indiablooms | Oct 08, 2019, at 08:02 pm

New Delhi: Inaugurating the Dussera function at Delhi's Dwarka area, Indian PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday urged people celebrate the girl child this Diwali.

"This Diwali, let us celebrate the accomplishments of our Nari Shakti. This can be our Lakshmi Pujan," Modi said.

Wishing people on Vijaya Dasami, Modi said: "On this Vijaya Dashami, at a time when we mark Gandhi150, I have a request for my fellow Indians. Let us take up one mission this year and work to fulfil it."

"This mission can be- not wasting food, conserving energy, saving water," he said.

India is celebrating Vijaya Dashami or Dussera on Tuesday.

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