Dynamite News M. Venkaiah Naidu: Dr. Kalam was a creative leader
The Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that Dr. Kalam was a creative leader who walked an unexplored path of developmental policies. He was delivering the 2nd Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Memorial Lecture on Wednesday.
New Delhi: The Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam was not only the country’s Missile Man, but the most popular “People’s President”.
Dr. Kalam was truly a human being extraordinaire; his vision was to see a transformed, fully developed India taking its place among the most developed nations of the world by 2020. He called it vision 2020.
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He said, Dr. Kalam’s Vision-2020 envisaged India to be a nation where the urban-rural divide is reduced to a “thin line”; where there is equitable distribution of, and adequate access to energy and quality water; where agriculture, industry and the service sector work together in symphony; where education with a good value system is not denied to any meritorious candidate because of societal or economic discrimination, a nation which is the best for the most talented scholars, scientists and investors from around the world; a nation where the best healthcare is available to all; a nation where governance is responsive, transparent and corruption-free; where poverty has been totally eradicated, illiteracy removed, crime against women and children is absent and no one in the society feels alienated.
This Lecture organized by SM Khan, Trustee, India Islamic Cultural Centre and former Director General, Doordarshan News. Khan said, Dr. Kalam always used to say that the ignited minds of the youth were bubbling with the spirit of ‘I can do it’ and the belief that ‘India will become a developed nation’.
Sirajuddin Qureshi, President, India Islamic Cultural Center; Adnan Abu Al Haija, Palestinian Ambassador to India; Councillor of Australian High Commissioner; M. Shashidhar Reddy, former Vice Chairman, National Disaster Management Authority; former MLC Naseeb Pathan, Senior IIS officer AA Rao, JDU (S) leader Danish Ali and many other dignitaries were present on the occasion.