After Prime Minister Narendra Modi unfurled the national flag and congratulated the nation from the Red Fort on the 72nd Independence Day, his last speech before the national election next year listed his government's accomplishments and the pace at which they were achieved. PM Modi drew a comparison between pre-NDA era and present day and said if his government had worked at 2013 pace, it would have taken longer to achieve what the country has already achieved in the last few years.