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In his monthly radio address, Mann ki Baat, the PM called the craze for holding wedding ceremonies abroad as a “pain” in his heart.“...since the topic of marriage has come up, one thing has been troubling me off and on for a long time… and if I don’t open up my heart’s pain to my family members, who else do I do it with? Just ponder… these days a new milieu is being created by some families to go abroad and conduct weddings. Is this at all necessary? If we celebrate the festivities of marriages onIndian soil, amid the people of India, the country's money will remain in the country,” Modi said.
He added that if the big rich families do so people here will get an opportunity to render some service or the other at such weddings and even the poor will tell their children about that occasion. “Can you extrapolate on this mission of ‘Vocal for Local’? Why don’t we hold such wedding ceremonies in our own country? It is possible that the kind of system you want may not be there today, but if we organise such events, systems will also develop. This is a topic related to very big families. I hope this pain of mine will definitely reach those big families,” the PM said.
Modi said the sentiment of becoming vocal towards Indian products should not be limited to festivals only and during the wedding season people should go for Made in India products. He said some trade organisations estimate that there could be a business of around Rs 5 lakh crore during this wedding season.
Mann ki Baat: PM Narendra Modi urges rich families shun weddings abroad, hold them in India - IndiaTimes
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