By adopting messages of Guru Ravidas, India moving rapidly on path of development: PM Modi

VARANASI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said India is moving rapidly on the path of development by adopting the messages of Sant Ravidas.Modi was speaking at a function here to commemorate the 647th birth anniversary of Sant Ravidas.Varanasi is Modi’s parliamentary constituency.”On the pious occasion of the birth anniversary of Sant Ravidas, I welcome you all to his birthplace. You have come from far-off places on this occasion, especially my brothers and sisters from Punjab…Varanasi seems to have become a mini-Punjab,” he said.In his address, the prime minister also hit out at the opposition ‘INDIA’ bloc, claiming that its members were exploiting people in the name of casteism.”They care for the well-being of their families, cannot think about the welfare of Dalits and tribals,” Modi added.Earlier, the prime minister inaugurated a newly installed statue of Sant Ravidas in Varanasi.



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