New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 75th birthday was celebrated Wednesday, with the distribution of a laddoo weighing 75kg in Delhi, the cutting of a 75kg, Operation Sindoor-themed cake in Ahmedabad, and yagya and hawan in temples across the country.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is also observing the entire week as ‘Sewa Saptah’ (week of service), organising free blood donation camps, health check-ups, and cleanliness drives across the country. On Wednesday, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and her cabinet colleagues donated blood at a camp on Kartavya Path.
Earlier in the morning, admirers bathed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statue with holy water at the temple dedicated to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Satyanarayana Hill in Gwalior. They also carried out a ‘Jal abhishek,’ and performed aarti, seeking a long life for Modi. A statue of the late PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee stands at the site, as well.
At the Jagannath Temple in Ahmedabad’s Jamalpur Darwaja, religious leaders from various communities came together to mark the day. The highlight was the 75kg cake, laid across a long table. It carried several photos with a ‘Operation Sindoor’ connection—from Colonel Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh to Narendra Modi himself.
Minister Kapil Mishra marked the day with his recitation of the ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ at a Hanuman temple, while praying for Modi’s long life.
In another big move, the Delhi government announced the launch of 500 creches for children of women working as labourers in the city. Several Municipal Corporation of Delhi healthcare centres were turned into Ayushman Aarogya Mandirs before some were inaugurated Wednesday.
Additionally, CM Rekha Gupta released a birthday song for the PM, called ‘Namo Pragati Delhi—From Children’s Voices to the Nation’s Voice’, sung by students from government schools in the Capital, underlining the ‘One India, Best India’ vision. A 75kg ‘jumbo laddu’ was unveiled during a cleanliness drive in Delhi.
In Patna, BJP workers marked the occasion with a 75-litre-milk ‘abhishek aarti’, followed by cake cutting at Patna’s Kalighat, taking vows that the BJP will return to power soon.
In Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar, Modi himself launched two initiatives—the fortnight-long, nationwide ‘Swasth Nari Sashakt Parivar’ campaign and the 8th National Nutrition Month.
Maharashtra BJP unit announced more than a lakh cataract surgeries, eye check-ups for at least 10 lakh people, and distribution of spectacles to the financially weaker sections free of cost between 17 September and 2 October.
Across the country, the government and BJP-ruled states have initiated drives at schools, hospitals, railway stations, bus stands, temples, parks, and historical places, starting 18 September and continuing till 2 October.
(Edited by Madhurita Goswami)
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