Though he continued the tradition of addressing the country from the ramparts of Delhi’s historic Red Fort, the speech broke with convention. Shunning a written text, Modi extemporized for an hour, mapping out an explicit vision for India, including an economic model that constitutes a clean break from India’s past.
新加坡—8月15日，莫迪首次以印度总理身份发表了独立日演讲。尽管他遵循传统，在德里历史悠久、防卫森严的红堡向全国人民做了这次演讲，但演讲内容仍然打破了常规。莫迪没有用讲稿，脱口讲了一个小时，为印度勾勒了一幅清晰的愿景，包括一个与印度的过去明确决裂的经济模式。