On this occasion, the Lokmata Devi Ahilyabai Women Empowerment Grand Convention is being organized today in Bhopal. The entire responsibility of this event is being handled by women power (Matri Shakti). Honorable and illustrious Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji is coming to Bhopal to attend this festival of women empowerment and self-reliance. On behalf of the 85 million people of Madhya Pradesh, I extend a heartfelt welcome to the Prime Minister. It is a matter of great fortune for us that the celebration of the virtuous Devi Ahilyabai Holkar's birth anniversary, to be held over the coming year, is being inaugurated today from the soil of Madhya Pradesh. For this, heartfelt thanks to the Honorable Prime Minister.
Devi Ahilyabai Holkar presented an ideal of complete good governance, a self-reliant, self-sufficient and harmonious society, and a safe and prosperous state. From east to west and north to south, she renovated and reconstructed about 130 dilapidated temples. She constructed river ghats, dharmshalas (rest houses), initiated free meal services, and established permanent arrangements for worship and religious rituals. She reinstated the cultural pride of the country and united the nation with a common thread. Her reign was not only a golden era but also a period of cultural renaissance for the nation.