When India Reforms, The World Transforms: Top Quotes From PM Modi’s UNGA Address 2021

Earlier today, PM Modi began the speech by paying tributes to the large number of lives lost since 2019 in the global Covid-19 pandemic.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday addressed the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, wherein he said, “When India grows, the world grows. When India reforms, the world transforms”. He flew to New York from Washington after his first bilateral meeting with US President Joe Biden.

Addressing the high-level United Nations General Assembly session here, PM Modi said: “We have had a great tradition of democracy that goes back to thousands of years.”

Here are the top quotes on democracy from PM Modi’s UNGA address:

1. I represent a country that is proud to be known as the mother of democracy. On 15th of August this year, India entered into the 75th year of its independence, he said.
2. Our diversity is the identity of our strong democracy, he added. It is a country that has dozens of languages, hundreds of dialects, different lifestyles and cuisines. This is the best example of a vibrant democracy, Prime Minister Modi said.
3. The strength of our democracy is demonstrated by the fact that a little boy who at one time used to help his father at his tea stall at a railway station is today addressing the United Nations General Assembly for the fourth time as prime minister of India, he said.
4. I will soon have spent 20 years serving my countrymen as head of government. First, as the longest serving Chief Minister of Gujarat and then as the Prime Minister for the last seven years, Modi said.
5. Yes, democracy can deliver. Yes, democracy has delivered, PM Modi said emphasising upon his own 20 years as head of a government — both as Gujarat Chief Minister and the Indian Premier.

(With inputs from PTI)