India, Oct. 3 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday appealed to the people of the country to buy Khadi products worth at least '5,000 every year as it would help provide employment to millions of people and bring light into their lives.

Shah, who visited the Khadi India showroom in Connaught Place here on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti and purchased Khadi products by making online payment, said that following a message of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, millions of families in the country have decided that they will not use any foreign goods.

He said Prime Minister Modi, through his Mann Ki Baat programme, raised the idea of swadeshi and gave the message to the citizens to connect with the country's economic development and the Make ...