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Congress person Rahul Gandhi has said that large nations are not built connected silence, but erstwhile radical explicit their views and combat for them.
“All implicit the state we spot radical who deliberation and judge thing but bash not person the courageousness to accidental it,” helium said aft presenting the Priyadarshini Literary Award instituted by Priyadarshini Publications nether the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) to professional M. Leelvathy astatine her residence successful Thrikkakara connected Monday.
“Embedded successful the civilization of soundlessness is besides the thought of greed. It does not substance what is happening arsenic agelong arsenic I americium getting what I need. I bash not request to accidental anything. I tin ticker radical being humiliated and killed. That is the civilization of greed,” helium said.
Mr. Gandhi praised Ms. Leelvathy for being elemental and humble. “We are precise arrogant of you for the contented you person fixed to the people,” helium said.
In her reply speech, she described Indira Gandhi arsenic 1 who sacrificed her beingness to safeguard secularism successful the country. “She valued secularism much than her life. Her emotion and respect for the communal people, her determination to eradicate poorness and to uplift the downtrodden and her courageousness and condemnation supra each made maine adore her,” she said.
She said those who ridiculed the Gandhi household successful the governmental arena had failed to see the information that 2 of its members became martyrs portion serving the nation. Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi’s lad and erstwhile Prime Minister, had inherited her traits. “He elevated women from crossed assorted sections to positions of power. He offered much seats successful elections to women erstwhile helium was Prime Minister. Even I was offered one, though I could not judge it for idiosyncratic reasons,” she recalled.
Ms. Leelvathy pointed retired that Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi had inherited the traits of their begetter and grandmother. “I privation that some of them would emergence to much almighty positions successful the adjacent aboriginal truthful that they tin service the federation much effectively. I anticipation that India’s destiny volition beryllium shaped successful their hands. It was a coincidence that I was capable to person the Kerala Sahitya Akademi grant from Ms. Gandhi successful 1981 and the Priyadarshini grant from her grandson today,” she said.
She donated the currency prize of ₹1 lakh received arsenic portion of the grant to the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation.
