Categories: World

PM Modi gets emotional as poor schoolgirl says she wants to be a doctor to treat her visually challenged father

<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<div id="cke_pastebin" style="">
<p>
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday got emotional and choked up while interacting with a visually challenged attendee at a Gujarat public meeting whose school-going daughter said she wanted to be a doctor so that she could treat her own father.</p>
<blockquote class="koo-media" data-koo-permalink="https://embed.kooapp.com/embedKoo?kooId=00562684-9a2b-41ab-8b3c-85bc9c5f86bd" style="background:transparent;border: medium none;padding: 0;margin: 25px auto; max-width: 550px;">
<div style="padding: 5px;">
<div style="background: #ffffff; box-shadow: 0 0 0 1.5pt #e8e8e3; border-radius: 12px; font-family: 'Roboto', arial, sans-serif; color: #424242 ; overflow: hidden; position: relative; ">
<a class="embedKoo-koocardheader" data-link="https://embed.kooapp.com/embedKoo?kooId=00562684-9a2b-41ab-8b3c-85bc9c5f86bd" href="https://www.kooapp.com/dnld" style=" background-color: #f2f2ef ; padding: 6px; display: inline-block; border-bottom: 1.5pt solid #e8e8e3; justify-content: center; text-decoration:none;color:inherit ;width: 100%;text-align: center;" target="_blank">Koo App</a>
<div style="padding: 10px">
<a href="https://www.kooapp.com/koo/nitin.gadkari/00562684-9a2b-41ab-8b3c-85bc9c5f86bd" style="text-decoration:none;color: inherit ;" target="_blank">’उत्कर्ष समारोह’ कार्यक्रम के दौरान गुजरात में सरकारी योजनाओं के लाभार्थियों में से एक अयूब पटेल जी से बात करते हुए, प्रधानमंत्री श्री नरेंद्र मोदी जी पटेल जी की बेटी के डॉक्टर बनने के सपने के बारे में सुनकर भावुक हो गए। यह प्रधानमंत्री जी की देशवासियों के प्रति संवेदनशीलता को दर्शाता है।</a>
<div style="margin:15px 0">
<a href="https://www.kooapp.com/koo/nitin.gadkari/00562684-9a2b-41ab-8b3c-85bc9c5f86bd" style="text-decoration: none;color: inherit ;" target="_blank"> View attached media content </a></div>
– <a href="https://www.kooapp.com/profile/nitin.gadkari" style="color: inherit ;" target="_blank">Nitin Gadkari (@nitin.gadkari)</a> 12 May 2022</div>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<img src="https://embed.kooapp.com/dolon.png?id=00562684-9a2b-41ab-8b3c-85bc9c5f86bd" style="display: none; height: 0; width: 0" /> <script src="https://embed.kooapp.com/embedLoader.js"></script>
<p>
Deeply moved by the girl’s response, PM Modi took a long pause and told her that it was her determination and strength that would lead to her success in life.</p>
<p>
The Prime Minister asked the man, Ayub Patel, if he was providing education to his daughters. The man, who was speaking into a microphone, said that all three of his daughters were in school and two of them were even getting government scholarships. He said the eldest daughter who is in class 12 wanted to become a doctor.</p>
<p>
When PM Modi directly asked her the reason to choose the medical profession as a career, she said, "I want to become a doctor because of the problem that my father is suffering from". While narrating his ordeal, Mr Ayub told the PM that his vision was low after an adverse reaction from some eyedrop he had taken while working in Saudi Arabia. The moment became an emotional roller coaster with the girl also breaking into tears.</p>
<p>
PM aims at 100% coverage for welfare schemes</p>
<p>
The Prime Minister announced at the function that he aims to ensure 100 per cent coverage of beneficiaries under government welfare schemes and said achieving this saturation is his dream.</p>
<p>
The Prime Minister explained that saturation leaves no space for appeasement politics. "My dream is saturation. We should move towards 100 per cent coverage. Government machinery should get used to this and a belief should be generated among the citizens," he said while virtually addressing the 'Utkarsh Samaroh' at Bharuch in Gujarat.</p>
<p>
"The country has made this resolve to cover 100 per cent of the beneficiaries. When there is 100 per cent coverage of schemes, the politics of appeasement comes to an end. There remains no space for it," PM Modi explained.</p>
<p>
The Prime Minister recalled his life spent with the people of Gujarat and said that it was due to his experience in the state that he was able to work for the country as a member of the family.</p>
</div>
</div>

IN Bureau

Recent Posts

Baloch Yakjehti Committee releases documentary to honour Karima Baloch’s legacy

On the 4th death anniversary of human rights activist Karima Baloch, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee…

5 hours ago

EAM Jaishankar to visit US from December 24-29

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will visit the US from December 24-29 to discuss key…

5 hours ago

Balochistan: Medical students protest campus closure, security crackdown

Students at the Bolan Medical College (BMC) in Balochistan's Quetta entered the 27th day of…

6 hours ago

Climate change, health risks escalate amid surge in PoGB deforestation

The intensifying cutting of trees for firewood in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB) is not only worsening…

7 hours ago

India’s retired judges, bureaucrats call for “immediate end” to attacks on minorities in open letter to Bangladesh

A group of retired judges, bureaucrats, Army officials and other civil society members have penned…

8 hours ago

Israel, Slovakia sign historic USD 582 million deal to boost Air Defense capabilities

Israel and Slovakia signed a 2 billion shekel (USD 582 million) agreement on Monday to…

8 hours ago