India will switch off its lights for 9 minutes at 9pm on Sunday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday appealed for a show of solidarity to end the “darkness” of coronavirus.
PM Modi wants his people to switch off lights of their homes and light up lamps, candles, mobile flashlights to display the nation’s spirit.
Once people everywhere light up lamps or display flashlights of their mobile phones at their doorsteps or balconies after turning off the lights at home, it will emerge in this “superpower” of brightness that “we are all fighting with a collective resolve”.
“In that brightness we should resolve that we are not alone. Nobody is alone,” PM Modi said.
PM modi Continuously emphasizing the mandate practice of Social Diatancing that it is a sure-shot solution to prevent the pandemic.
Modi asked people to keep in their minds the poor, a large number of whom have been hit hard by the lockdown, and help them “walk from darkness spread by coronavirus to light and hope”.
“In this darkness spread by the coronavirus pandemic, we must continuously progress towards light and hope. We must continuously strive to take those of us most affected, our poor brothers and sisters, from disappointment to hope. We must end the darkness and uncertainty emanating from the crisis, by progressing towards light and certainty,” he said.
Modi asked people to think about “Maa Bharati” (Mother India) and its 130 crore citizens with their combined resolve, saying this will give them strength to fight and the confidence to win in this hour of crisis.
Source: News18
