New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Arya Samaj to champion Swadeshi with renewed vigour, making ‘Vocal for Local’ a mass movement rooted in Maharshi Dayanand’s ideals.
Celebrating women’s empowerment, he highlighted India’s daughters soaring as Rafale pilots, leading Chandrayaan missions, and topping global STEM graduates—transforming Swami Dayanand’s vision of educated, liberated women into a national reality that strengthens Viksit Bharat.
Swami Dayanand was born when British rule had filled India with superstition and fear of new ideas. After years of prayer in the Himalayas, he returned with a strong message:
“Go back to the Vedas!” PM Modi said on Friday that the sage ended caste bias and “untouchability”, corrected wrong readings of holy books through open

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