Modi plays Dangal connect at Haryana rally, says he felt proud China’s Xi has seen film

  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that Chinese President Xi Jinping has seen the movie based on wrestler Babita Phogat.
     
  • Modi said he got to know this during the recent visit by Xi to Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu.
     
  • He said, 'Chinese president Xi Jinping told me that he saw in the movie what wonders daughters were capable of doing.'

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  • Describing the girls of Haryana as ‘dhakad’, Modi said the ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ campaign would not have been successful without the support of the state’s villages. 
     
  • He highlighted schemes initiated by the BJP government for women and steps taken to make them financially independent.