At the Townhall Q&A, PM Modi also said that he wants to make India a 20 trillion economy.
PM Modi became emotional while speaking about the hardships faced by his mother to bring him up. PM Modi was addressing a crowd at Facebook HQ with Mark Zuckerberg.
PM Modi said, "When we were small, to sustain us she cleaned dishes, fill water, did laborious work at the neighbouring houses. You can imagine a mother, in order to raise her kids, underwent so much hardships," Modi spoke haltingly as he tried to control his tears, amid a hushed silence at the event.
After a pause, he slowly regained his composure, observing, "It's not just the case with Narendra Modi, many mothers in India sacrifice their entire lives for their children."
"There are so many parents who have sacrificed their own lives to fulfil the dreams and aspirations of their children," he said.
"A mother will never want you to become something, she will think about how you will achieve that. I've my mother, who is over 90 years. Even today she does all her works on her own. She isn't educated but because of television she is updated with the news, what is happening in the world otherwise she didn't know."
"My parents have played a very big role in my life, I come from a very poor family... You probably know that I used to sell tea at the railway station," he said.
"No one can imagine that such a big democracy of this world has made a tea seller it's leader. And therefore firstly I want to thank those 1.25 crore indians who made such an ordinary person like me their own."
At the Townhall Q&A, PM Modi also said that he wants to make India a 20 trillion economy.
PM Modi also said, "My dream is to make India a 20 trillion economy, I need to focus on agricultural, service and manufacturing sector to achieve that. It's amazing how perception about India has changed in a very short period of time, we've brought in a new level of confidence. "
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