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New Delhi:Prime Minister Narendra Modis 10th Independence Day speech Tuesday suggested a significant change in his politics ever since he occupied the top post nine years ago...
In his Independence Day address in 2014, Modi was positive and warm towards political rivals who he had defeated barely three months before..
He said that if the country had reached such heights after Independence, it was because of the contributions of all the Prime Ministers, all the governments and even the governments in all the states...
On Tuesday, the Prime Minister was virtually exhorting the people to get rid of his political adversaries from the ramparts of the Red Fort, identifying them with corruption, nepotism and appeasement..
It was the first time that Modi chose his Independence Day address to directly attack opposition parties, making a sharp departure from his usual digs at past governments for their purported omissions and commissions...
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