New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi spent this year’s Diwali on board an Indian Navy vessel with which he shares a close association over the past three years. He had commissioned the country’s first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant at Cochin Shipyard Limited on September 2, 2022.

It marked a symbol of the country’s growing prowess of indigenous manufacturing and an achievement of a major milestone in the path towards ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’.

Incidentally, the Prime Minister had also unveiled the new Naval Ensign (Nishaan) at the same event, doing away with the colonial past.

He dedicated the new ensign to Chhatrapati Shivaji.

“I remember when INS Vikrant was being handed over to the nation, I had said that Vikrant is vast, immense, and magnificent,” he recollect

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