Modi, wearing a printed orange-coloured turban and delivering probably the longest Independence Day speech by a prime minister (lasted almost 90 minutes), focussed largely on the issue of corruption and asserted that the steps taken by his government over the last 15 months to deal with this "termite" had started yielding results.
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