Modi about VIPs

New Delhi, May 1: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that All 125 crore Indians are important, he made the statements in Mann ki Baat monthly address to the nation meeting here in New Delhi.

Modi was referring to his govt's recent ban of red beacons on the cars of so-called VIPs, or 'very important people'.

"VIP culture has been the bane of India. Experience taught me that the red beacon was put on vehicles, but it also got into people's heads and became transformed into VIP culture. Now, red beacons in people's heads also need to go. New India's concept is that instead of a VIP let's have EPI - Every Person is Important.



All 125 crore Indians are important. If we all get together (as EPIs) we will have the power to fulfil the most audacious dreams," Modi said in his Mann ki Baat monthly address to the nation.

Modi used the EPI(every person Important) concept to touch upon another of his favorite projects, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, or 'Clean India'. He talked about a citizen telling him how "happy" she was with the ban on red beacons.

"Swachh Bharat is cleaning the roads of VIPs too. Every India is a VIP on the roads now," Modi narrated the citizen saying.