In his first monthly radio address Mann Ki Baat after being re-elected, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said he had not returned to office, but “the people had brought him back”. The Prime Minister’s Mann Ki Baat programme was suspended in February in the run-up to the Lok Sabha election, which concluded when results were declared on May 23. I shall not reveal other things today, but I certainly want to tell you that perhaps in that solitary cave, I got an opportunity to fill up the vacuum caused due to the long pause that Mann Ki Baat had to go through. But, India can proudly proclaim that, for us, beyond laws and rules, democracy is embedded in our sanskaar; democracy is our culture. Democracy is our heritage,” he said, adding that people had voted to save democracy in the 1977 election.

Source: The Hindu June 30, 2019 10:35 UTC