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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the world should stop differentiating between good terrorism and bad terrorism” and said that “terrorism is terrorism”, while he was addressing Indian-Americans at the SAP Centre in San Jose. According to him, global warming and terror are the two big threats facing by the world.
He said, “The UN is celebrating its 70th anniversary but till now it has not been able to arrive at a definition for terrorism. If defining it takes so much time, how many years will it take to tackle terrorism?”
“Humanist forces in the world will have to put pressure so that it is decided in black and white what is terrorism. Since there is no definition, talk about good terrorism and bad terrorism is going on. We cannot protect humanity with this good and bad terrorism.”
Attacking son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi, Robert Vadra, Modi said, “In our country it doesn’t take much for allegations to come up against politicians… Someone made Rs 50 crore, someone’s son made Rs 250 crore, daughter made Rs 500 crore, damaad (son-in-law) made Rs 1,000 crore...”
He said that the Indians in the US has a better view of things happening in the country that those who are living in India. “You are making the world change from here. Those who resist change will become irrelevant in the 21st century,” Modi said while who stood on a podium that turned at a slow pace so that he could address everyone.
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Modi said that he would look at the brain drain differently and he sees it as an opportunity to be used to the motherland by converting brain drain to brain gain. He said with Aadhaar cards, five crore fake gas connections were weeded out. Now, as subsidy was being given only for 13 crore units, at least Rs 19,000 crore are being saved. Give It Up campaign made 30 lakh people to give up their gas subsidy.
-Sumana
