External Affairs Minister says, PM captured sentiments aspirations of India

By Our Special Correspondent

Praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, External Affairs Minister S Jai Shankar on Tuesday said he has captured the sentiments and aspirations of the entire country.

Jai Shankar, speaking at an event on Modi@20: Dreams Meet Delivery book in New Delhi today, remarked that before 2014 Delhi media used to give its friends and favorites the status of national leader.

“A large part of the book is written by people outside the government. He is a Prime Minister, who has captured the sentiments and aspirations of the entire country. He has been approached from perspectives of sports, business, public life in this book,” the Foreign Minister said.

“What makes a leader? Before Prime Minister Modi in India, this question puzzled serious students of politics. In 1947, national leaders recalled their names in regions and states,” said Jai Shankar.

“Decades later in the heyday of the coalition era, the articulate national leader was much abused. This is a status distributed by Delhi media friends and favorites. Since 2014, PM Modi has been the model of what a national leader should be and take,” he added.

Meanwhile, the book, ‘Modi@20 Dreams Meet Delivery’, was launched by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu last month.

The book ‘Modi @20: Dreams Meeting Delivery’, is an anthology about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (ANI)