PM Modi Russia Visit Updates: PM Modi Says “140 Crore Indians Are Making Resurgence Of India Possible”

New Delhi:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is on two-day official visit to Russia at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin meets the Indian community here.

PM Modi will first interact with the Indian community in Russia, lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Kremlin and thereafter visit the Rosatom pavilion at an exhibition venue in Moscow.

The two leaders met yesterday at the Russian President’s official address where they spoke over crucial global matters.

The meeting marks the 16th encounter between PM Modi and President Putin in the past decade, with their last face-to-face interaction occurring at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in 2022.

This visit to Russia by PM Modi is his first since the conflict between Moscow and Kyiv began in 2022.

Here are the LIVE Updates of PM Modi’s Russia visit: 

• The fact that you all walk proudly and are given so much respect – that is the doing of all of you – Of all 140 crore Indians who have earned that respect by the world you all have done and the way in which you conduct yourselves.
• 140 crore Indians are making this resurgence of India possible – they dream big (sapne), they take a pledge (sankalp) and they then make it happen / deliver (siddhi).

• When India hosts the G20 Summit at the scale at which it did, the world takes notice.
• When India electrifies 40,000 km of rail lines, then the world notices India’s power to grow.
• When India launches a solar mission and successfully and takes an L1 orbit, when India lands on the moon, when India builds the world’s highest rail bridge, when India build’s the world’s tallest statue, the world sees a growing India.
• And India can do all this because of the potential and capability of 140 crore Indians – of its talented diaspora in every country of the world.

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• Today, India has the world’s 3rd largest start-up ecosystem.
• Today, India has lakhs and lakhs of start-ups.
• Today, India is filing for patents and publishing research papers in record numbers – and the world is in awe of this.
• The speed at which India is progressing and developing, the world is seeing this in amazement.
• They are witnissing the transformation of India at a record pace.

PM Modi Russia Visit Updates: PM Modi on ‘Lakhpati Didi’ scheme

• It is our endeavour to ensure that India becomes the 3rd largest economy in the world. It is our aim to build and deliver 3 crore Awas (homes) for the poor.
• It is our aim that 3 crore women from economically backward sections become ‘lakhpati didis’ – that is they earn one lakh per year.
• And as you all know – when New India makes a resolve/promise, then it fulfils those promises.

PM Modi Russia Visit Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses Indian community in Russia

Here are the highlights of his address:

• I want to thank all of you for coming here. 
• I have not come here alone, I have come with a lot of things. I have brought with me the fragrance of the soil of India. I have brought with me the love of 140 crore countrymen.
• This is my first conversation with the Indian diaspora after forming the government for the third time. 
• Today, on 9th July and it has been a full month since I took oath as the PM of India for the third time and I took a vow that I will work with 3 times more strength, at 3 times more speed and it is also a coincidence that the number 3 is also present in many of the government’s goals. 
• The government’s goal is to make India the third largest economy in the world in the third term

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• Russia has decided to discharge all Indians working in the Russian army after Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the issue with President Vladimir Putin during his Moscow visit, said sources.
• At least two Indians have died fighting Russia’s war against Ukraine while dozens stuck in the war zone claim they were tricked into taking up the fighting role.
• PM Modi, who is in Moscow for a two-day visit, raised the issue at a private dinner hosted by Putin last evening, sources said. Russia agreed to discharge all Indians serving in their army and facilitate their return, they added.