Modi Addresses India on Independence Day

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed his country’s 1.2 billion people in a speech at New Delhi’s iconic Red Fort on Independence Day, August 15. Modi used the speech to announce that more than 18,000 villages that still have no access to electricity in the country will be provided with power in three years.

India achieved independence from the British Empire on August 15, 1947. Credit: YouTube/Narendra Modi