A new India can also be realised if the whole nation so resolves, he said.
"The country's freedom was not an outcome of agitation by any particular party but the result of a national resolve for it. If the country stands with a firm resolve, a new India can become a reality by 2022," Singh said after inaugurating a picture exhibition 'Naya Bharat hum karke rahengy' here.
If we all resolve for 'Swachh Bharat', an India, which is free of poverty, corruption, terrorism, communalism and casteism, we can achieve it, he said.
Singh said that Mahatma Gandhi gave the slogan of 'karo ya maro' (do or die) and made people believe in it. The Quit India resolution of 1942 was so strong that the country attained freedom five years later in 1947, he said.
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Praising the prime minister, he said that while Mahatma Gandhi that initiated the 'swachchta andolan', Narendra Modi had taken it further.
The Union home minister said that there had not been a single riot in the over three years of Modi government nor had there been any charge of corruption against any minister.