Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (September 28) addressed around thousands in a grand reception by the Indian community in San Jose, California.
Marking freedom fighter Bhagat Singh’s birth anniversary, Modi began his speech at the SAP Centre bowing down to this brave son of India.
In his speech, Modi highlighted India’s digital growth story, harped upon the issues of global warming and terrorism and also praised India’s youth.
Modi didn’t leave a chance to take a dig at Congress. He said, “It doesn’t take much for politicians to get allegations to their name. The son made Rs 50 crore, the daughter made Rs 250 crore, the son-in law made Rs 1,000 crore. The relative got the contract. The people of India are sick of corruption.”
Here’s a look at 10 best quotes from Modi’s speech:
1. Today in the entire world India has a new identity, a new image. The old image has been forced down, and there is a reason.
2. Who brought this change? This change was not by brought by any Modi, but by the 125 crore Indians.
3. We often keep hearing that we need to stop this brain drain. But India is ‘Bahuratna Vasundhara’, there will be many brains there. We’re not going to lose our crop of brains due to brain drain. I have a very different way of looking at it, and we must reverse brain drain to ‘brain gain’.
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4. It is often asked, who does the 21st century belong to. Everyone agrees its Asia’s. For the first time they don’t say that but say its India’s.
5. India is only nation which succeeded in its ‘Mars orbiter mission’ in just one attempt,look at commitment and capability of nation.
6. ‘J’ stands for Jandhan account, ‘A’ stands for ‘Adhaar card’ and ‘M’ stands for ‘Mobile governance’.
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7. e-governance is easy, effective and economical governance. Technology has given a new strength and direction to entire world. Acknowledging that, we have initiated ‘Digital India’.
8. When I took office, came to Delhi, I was pained to see, about 50 per cent Indians had not seen the doors of a bank. We took the initiative of opening their bank accounts. Today, 18 crore new accounts are opened.
9. Today the world is facing two main challenges which are terorism and global warming. We need to tackle these menaces. The UN still hasn’t been able to define terrorism. If it takes so much time just to define, how will we be able tackle it. We cannot safeguard mankind from either ‘good terrorism’ or ‘bad terrorism’. Terrorism is terrorism.
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10. From 2 December, 2015 Air India will start a direct flight from Delhi to San Francisco three times a week.
