Wishing citizens on the occasion of Navrathri, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 29 asked people to launch a campaign to celebrate the achievements of their daughters. The Prime Minister asked people to start a social media campaign with the hashtag “Bharat Ki Lakshmi”. Society should identify such daughters and honour them across India,” the Prime Minister said. Greeting citizens on the occasion of Shardiya Navratras and Durga Puja, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said that more effort was required to protect and ensure the rights of women. In the present circumstances, we need to make more efforts to protect the honour and rights of women”, the Congress president said in a statement.

Source: The Hindu September 29, 2019 21:00 UTC