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New Delhi, September 24, 2017 | UPDATED 11:10 IST
The Prime Minister has been using the Mann ki Baat platform to particularly reach out to the youth and seek their active participation in nation-building.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses nation on Mann ki Baat.Prime Minister 
Narendra Modi is addressing the nation today through his monthly Mann ki Baat programme, which completes three years today.
This will be the 36th edition of the programme which has been hugely popular among people, cutting across age groups.
The Prime Minister has been using the Mann ki Baat platform to particularly reach out to the youth and seek their active participation in nation-building.
In the previous Mann ki Baat on August 27, Narendra Modi had expressed his concern over the violence in Haryana following Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's conviction and sentencing in the rape cases.
"In my address from the ramparts of the Red Fort, I had said that violence in the name of faith will not be tolerated, whether it is communal belief systems, whether it is subscribing to political ideologies, whether it is allegiance to a person or customs and traditions. No one has the right to take the law into one's own hands in the name of one's beliefs," the Prime Minister said in Mann ki Baat address last month.
In his previous Mann ki Baat, Narendra Modi said that the medium provides him a great opportunity to understand people. The Prime Minister said lakhs of listeners write to him and send messages sharing their feedback or concerns through Mann ki Baat.
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