New Delhi, May 14 (PTI) Home Minister Amit Shah will be the chief guest of the three-day Delhi University International Seminar starting May 19.

University officials have confirmed Shah’s participation in the seminar entitled “Revisiting Ideas of India from Swaraj to New India”, organized by the Department of Political Science.

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Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is also expected to attend the event, which will discuss ideas developed before and after India’s independence, as well as those who came up with his ideas.

“In this proposed international seminar, an effort will be made to understand India’s journey through the ideas that have flourished in modern times over the past 150 years. Undoubtedly, during this period, the Mahatma Gandhi awakened not only Indian consciousness but that of the entire world by inspiring his set of ideas in the first half of the 20th century,” reads the concept note.

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“If Swami Vivekananda unveiled India and his ideas on the world stage, Mahatma Gandhi established India on the world level. The proposed seminar will provide a platform to discuss ideas such as Swadeshi, Vande Mataram, Swaraj, nationalism and socialism among others which took shape before Gandhi, but further flourished under the leadership of the Mahatma and others.This seminar will therefore discuss ideas developed both before and after India’s independence with those who have come forward with such ideas,” the note further reads.

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