NEW DELHI, Aug 14 (PTI)

VICE President M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday greeted people on the eve of 74th Independence Day, saying the most meaningful tribute to the freedom fighters is to build an India they aspired for.

 

“Let us also remember with gratitude the martyred heroes of our struggle for independence who laid down their lives for the cause of freedom,” he said in his message. “The most meaningful tribute we can pay to these patriots is to build an India they aspired for,” Naidu said. He also called upon people to renew commitment towards building a united, strong, prosperous, inclusive and peaceful nation “where a billion plus dreams find expression and fulfillment.

 

“May this Independence Day bring amity, harmony and prosperity in our country,” he said. ‘We will give befitting reply if enemy attacks us’: INDIA will give a befitting reply if an enemy country attacks it, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday, in an oblique message to China in the midst of the border row in eastern Ladakh. In a message to the Armed Forces on the eve of Independence Day, he said India believes in winning hearts and not land. “But it does not mean we will let our self-esteem be hurt,” he said in the message.