IIWA President speech on the Occasion of India’s 70th Independence day
I EXTEND MY WARM GREETINGS TO YOU ALL.
ITS WITH IMMENCE PLEASURE I STAND BEFORE YOU TODAY TO CELEBRATE THE 70YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE JUST A FEW MONTHS BEFORE OUR ADOPTED HOME COUNTRY MAURITIUS CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF INDEPENCE.
I HAVE BEEN HERE FOR 36 YEARS & I HAVE SEEN MANY CHANGES IN HOW THE TWO COUNTRIES HAVE EVOLVED IN LIVING TOGETHER DUE TO A LOT OF SIMILARITIES IN CULTURE.
INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM THE VERY WORDS GIVE US SO MUCH OF JOY AND CHEER.NOTHING IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN LIBERTY.
I RESPECTFULLY BOW TO THE HEROES OF OUR INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE KNOWN AND UNKNOWN WHO FOUGHT,SUFFERED AND SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES TO WIN FREEDOM FOR US..
MAHATMA GANDHI LUMINOUS LEADERSHIP FINALLY MADE THE BRITISH QUIT INDIA IN 1947..
WHEN WE GAINED INDEPENDENCE NOBODY BELIEVED THAT INDIA WILL SURVIVE AS A DEMOCRACY.
YET SEVEN DECADES LATER 11/4 BILLION INDIANS WITH ALL THEIR DIVERSITY IN CULTURE AND LANGUAGES HAVE PROVED THOSE FORECASTS WRONG.
THE STRONG EDIFICE OF DEMOCRACY BUILT BY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS ON THE FOUR PILLARS OF JUSTICE,LIBERTY,EQUALITY & FRATERNITY HAS WITHSTOOD SEVERE THREATS BOTH FROM WITHIN AND OUTSIDE & HAS GROWN FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH…
IN THE WORD OF PANDIT JAWAHARLALL NEHRU IT IS A COUNTRY BY STRONG AND INVISIBLE THREADS.
WE ALL MUST CONTRIBUTE TO MAKE INDIA AS WAS DREAMT ‘THE GOLDEN HERITAGE’ BY ALL FREDOM FIGHTERS.
OUR UNITY,COLLECTIVE WISDOM,POWER OF AWARENESS,PROGRESS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GIVES ME THE CONFIDENCE THAT THIS WILL TAKE US TO GREATER HEIGHTSTO BE AN EVERSHINING COUNTRY.
THEN ALL INDIANS ACROSS THE GLOBE CAN PROUDLY SAY
“SARE JAHAN SE ACHA HINDUSTAN HAMARA’
JAI HIND
LETS ALL CHEERS TOGETHER FOR OUR MOTHERLAND
BHARAT MATA KI JAI!
Mrs. Veena Hassamal
The President of IIWA