I would like this house to join me in paying fulsome tribute to our scientists, engineers and defence personnel whose singular achievements have give… - Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Secularists like you don’t have to spend sleepless nights over this. I will carry the secular baggage on my broad shoulders.

The enemy is within our very hearts and minds. It is the cancer of doubts and despair which is overtaking our people. It is the loss of faith in our system, in the very future of our beloved motherland. This creeping rot must end. I am sure that very soon, by the grace of god and the inherent good sense of the Indian people, it will end. But that calls for a great national effort.

Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand for victory will be ours.