India deeply valued Lee's friendship and his support: Modi

March 29, 2015 11:08

Prime Minister Narendra Modi o0mn Sunday lauded Singapore's founder and first premier Lee Kuan Yew as a 'global thinker' and said India deeply valued his friendship and his support for its economic progress.

Modi, who arrived in Singapore on Sunday morning to attend the state funeral services of Lee, said the former Singapore prime minister was 'among the tallest leaders of our times'.

Lee, 91, died of severe pneumonia on March 23. Noting that Singapore's transformation in one generation is a tribute to Lee's leadership, Modi said his death marks the end of an era.

"He inspired not just Southeast Asia, but all of Asia, to believe in its own destiny," he said.

Image: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Singapore. Photograph: MEA

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