Our future is built on choices you make: PM tells India's youth

November 19, 2016 20:49

Highlights of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's addresses to the Global Citizen Festival, taking place in Mumbai, via video conferencing:

* India is a young country & our future is built on the choices you make and the actions you take; hope you too will seize the moment

* On the whole, I'm convinced that we can and we will build a Swachh Bharat free of all forms of filth within one generation

* Deeply grateful to you for working shoulder to shoulder with me in this cleanliness drive and look forward that you continue to do so.

* The young people have taken the initiative of "Swacch Bharat Abhiyan" forward, be it of the country and black money

* You've been smart in asking me to only address gathering and not sing, or else I'm sure you'd be asking money back that too in Rs100 notes

* You bring an energy and idealism that is unparalleled

* I always look forward to being among young people; it refreshes and re energises me; you bring an energy that is unparalleled

* Back in 2014, I had enjoyed attending the Global Citizen Festival in the beautiful Central Park of New York

* I know that I stand between you and Cold Play and so will make this brief

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