India now has a stable, fearless, decisive, honest government - President Murmu

President Droupadi Murmu in her first address to the joint sitting of Parliament, on Tuesday, lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, saying that it “respects honesty” and is “stable, fearless and decisive, and works to fulfil big dreams”. With the President addressing a joint session, the Budget session of Parliament begins today on January 31, 2023.

The President Murmu said, “India now has a government which is stable, fearless and decisive and which works to fulfil big dreams. It has a government which respects honesty and works to solve the poor’s problems and empower them permanently.”

The Union government was committed to providing transparent and corruption-free governance focussed on people who are poor and downtrodden, and women, and urged citizens to build a developed India – with strong connections to its past glory but without losing modern concepts – by the time the country celebrates the centenary of its Independence, said the President.

“By 2047, we have to build a nation that will be connected to the pride of the past and which will have all the golden chapters of modernity. We have to build an India that will be ‘aatma nirbhar’ and capable to fulfil its humanitarian duties,” President Murmu told MPs who assembled in the Central Hall of Parliament as the Budget Session began.

The President Marmu urged parliamentarians to set difficult goals and work to achieve them. “In this Parliament, which is the heart of our democracy, it should be our endeavour to set goals that seem difficult and achieve them. We should try to accomplish today what is to be done tomorrow. What others are still thinking of doing, we Indians should accomplish before them,” she said while concluding her speech.