PM Modi \'adopts\' children left orphaned by COVID

New Delhi: Asserting that the BJP-led NDA government’s eight years in office were dedicated to the welfare of the poor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday: “India’s pride has increased around the world and our power in global forums has increased.” The PM also expressed happiness that as his government is completing its eight years, the “confidence of the country and the self-confidence of its people is unprecedented”. Speaking at the PM Cares for Children event, Mr Modi also said India was getting out of the “vicious cycle” of corruption, scams, nepotism, and with terrorist organisations spreading across the country and regional discrimination, in which it was trapped before 2014, and asserted that his government’s eight years were dedicated to the welfare of the poor. As the Narendra Modi government has completed eight years in power, Union home minister Amit Shah said Mr Modi had “given wings to the dreams and aspirations of every citizen of the country and instilled in them new confidence during his eight years of government”. Saying that Mr Modi has “changed the political culture and ushered in a responsive and pro-active government”, BJP president J.P. Nadda said that “seva, sushasan and garib kalyan” were the soul of the Modi government.