Narendra Modi: “Rajpath, the Kingsway, was for the British -- was for the British for…”

On the recordSeptember 9, 2022

Rajpath, the Kingsway, was for the British -- was for the British for whom the people of India were slaves. It was a symbol of colonialism.

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Narendra Modi

Bharatiya Janata Party

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Modi discusses the renaming of Kingsway to Kartavya Path as a reclamation of India's history from colonialism.

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