Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a 50-minute-long at the United States Congress on Wednesday which was peppered with standing ovations and applauses from the American lawmakers. It was reported that the speech was interrupted more than 40 times by cheers.
In his address, Modi invoked American icons like Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Walt Whitman and Norman Borlaug as well as Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda and Atal Bihari Vajpayee and said that India and the US, the world’s largest and oldest democracies, had learnt a lot from each other's philosophies and practices, making them ‘natural allies’.
Dressed in trademark white kurta-pyjama and grey-coloured half-jacket, Modi was warmly received by the American lawmakers.
The prime minister hailed the US Congress, describing it as a ‘temple of democracy’ from which democracies world over had learnt.
