LS Speaker Sumitra Mahajan inaugurates exhibition on 'New India' campaign

New Delhi : Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan today inaugurated an exhibition on the country's freedom struggle and the vision for the future, and said it was not just an event but a pledge to achieve a 'New India' by 2022.

She said the 'New India We Resolve to Make' exhibition is specially important for the children who will get to know about India's fight for freedom."This is not an exhibition, which you just see and praise. It is a kind of pledge (sankalp) (to achieve a 'New India')," she said.

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who was also present on the occasion, said such programmes help children to understand the sacrifices made by freedom fighters to get Independence.

He said the exhibition will promote 'New India' campaign to free the country from corruption, poverty, filth, communalism, terrorism and casteism.

The exhibition will be held over 35 places across the country. In the national capital, it will be held for a week at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.