Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Mann ki Baat address on Sunday (September 28, 2025), made a renewed pitch to the citizens of the country to buy khadi products and locally-made goods in the ongoing festival season to strengthen India’s domestic economy and vitalise its entrepreneurs.

“I extend to you good wishes on the upcoming Diwali, but I also reiterate: we have to become self-reliant, we have to make the country self-reliant; and the path to that lies only through Swadeshi,” Mr. Modi said.

The Prime Minister also interacted with Lt. Commander K. Dilna and Lt. Commander Roopa Alagirisamy, who recently made history by becoming the first Indian women to circumnavigate the globe in a double-handed sailing vessel .

Mr. Modi also spoke about the upcoming 100-year anniversary of the

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