PM Modi’s letter pitched for a self-reliant India as the nation aspires to play a larger role in global supply chains With the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) completing its first year in office in its second term on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an open letter, reached out to financially weaker sections, migrant workers and farmers.

The letter comes amid the unfolding human tragedy unleashed by the covid-19 pandemic. BJP made electoral history when it managed to return to power with a bigger majority in May 2019.

The ruling alliance is the only coalition, other than the Congress, to have come back to power. Modi listed out the achievements of his government’s core political agenda, including the revocation of Article 370

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