Gandhi invoked in a befitting tribute at the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention |
On 2nd October 2018 at the resplendent President House in Delhi, the Closing Ceremony of the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention took on a true global and spiritual dimension, invoking Gandhi's words that sanitation and cleanliness is more important than political freedom. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged India will lead the world in achieving the 70 Sustainable Development Goals of the UN by 2030. A regal ceremony with 67 countries, 50 Ministers and the UN Secretary General Antonio Gueterras in attendance marked a befitting tribute to the beginning of Gandhi's 150th year birth anniversary celebrations. A Video showed sanitation as people's movement. Another video of 41 countries' top artistes singing Gandhi's famous Vaishna Bhajan in Gujarati language permeated the mind, body, soul and environment of all. Modi thanked his Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj whose missions engaged artists in 124 countries to sing the Bhajan that Modi said would cultivate a global Gandhian movement to eradicate ills and problems. Guetteras complimented India for staging the first such global sanitation convention. States, Districts, Cities, Youth, Children and Innovators under the Swachh Bharat Mission. Speeches and videos are worth watching!
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