Goa Liberation Day Live Updates: Goa would have been liberated earlier had Sardar Patel lived longer, says PM Modi

 LIVE: PM Modi inaugurates multiple projects in Goa on state's liberation day

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that Goa would have been liberated from Portuguese rule much before had Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel lived for some further time. Modi was speaking at an event to celebrate Goa Liberation Day, observed on December 19 every time to mark the day Indian fortified forces freed the littoral state from Portuguese rule in 1961. 

 

 Had Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel been alive for a little further time, Goa would have been liberated before, Modi said. Modi also lauded freedom fighters, including those from outside Goa, who fought for the state’s freedom. When India got Independence, they still continued the fight to liberate Goa, he added. “ They assured that the struggle to liberate Goa didn't end after India’s independence,” he said. 

PM Modi on Sunday inaugurated multiple development systems in Goa, including the repaired Fort Aguada Jail Museum, thesuper-specialty Block at Goa Medical College, the South Goa District Hospital, an aeronautics skill development centre at Mopa Airport and a gas- isolated substation at Davorlim in Navelim. Before, he complimented Operation Vijay stagers and offered homage at the killers’ honorary in Azad Maidan, Panaji. 

 

 He also said, “ Goa came under Portuguese rule when a major part of the country was ruled by the Mughals. But indeed centuries latterly, neither Goa has forgotten its Indianness, nor India has forgotten its Goa … Some time agone, I went to Italy and Vatican City. There I also had the occasion to meet Pope Francis. I invited him to visit India, to which Pope Francis said,‘This is the topmost gift you have given me.’This is his love for India’s diversity and our radiant republic.” 

Punjab principal minister Charanjit Singh Channi visits Golden Temple in Amritsar. Before in the day, the state government constituted a SIT to probe the sacrilege incident at the tabernacle. 

 

 TMC principal and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that the namer turnout recorded till now for the Kolkata communal choices is over 50, according to ANI. “ I'm happy people suggested peacefully. Kolkata Police is carrying out its duties efficiently,” she was quoted as saying by ANI.