‘Opportunity Stands For You’: PM Modi Gives an ‘Aatmanirbhar’ Twist to Maithili Sharan Gupt’s Poem
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‘Opportunity Stands For You’: PM Modi Gives an ‘Aatmanirbhar’ Twist to Maithili Sharan Gupt’s Poem

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday while delivering the motion of thanks to the President’s address in Rajya Sabha quoted eminent Hindi poet Maithili Sharan Gupt to stress that India must grab the opportunities to play a larger role at the global stage. Tera karmshetra bada hai, pal pal hai anmol, arey Bharat uth, aankhen khol,” the PM said in his address, which translates to “Opportunity stands for you, yet you lie idle. The PM said that had Gupt been alive today, the lines of his poem would have been something The PM said said that India has truly become a land of opportunities now. “Worldwide, people have accepted that India played a crucial role in battling the pandemic,” the PM said, adding that while India was once dubbed a “third-world country”, it is now helping out with vaccines.

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