Here To Celebrate Your Achievements”: PM Modi To Indian Community In Kuwait
New Delhi:
It is after 43 years that an Indian Prime Minister is visiting Kuwait, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the Indian community, adding that he is here to celebrate their achievements. The PM said India has manpower, skills needed by New Kuwait.
- It takes you four hours to come here from India, but it took an Indian PM four decades to come here again, said PM Modi addressing the Indian community, stressing that this is a “special moment” for him.
- “You have filled Kuwait’s canvas with colours of Indian skills, mixed essence of India’s talent, technology and tradition,” said the PM, underlining that he is here not just to meet the Indian community but to celebrate their achievements.
- Earlier, PM Modi met Abdulla Al Baroun, who translated both Ramayana and Mahabharata in Arabic, and Abdul Lateef Al Nesef, who published the Arabic versions of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. PM Modi had mentioned about this in his monthly radio address ‘Mann Ki Baat’.
- The Prime Minister also met Mangal Sain Handa, a 101-year-old retired Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer living in Kuwait. The retired officer had requested on social media that he’d like to meet PM Modi