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Students click selfies with smiling Modi in France
Paris, April 11
A bunch of excited Indian
students greeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the French space agency
CNES during his visit to Toulouse and even clicked selfies, with Modi
obliging them smilingly while posing for photographs with them.
"We
are very excited to meet the prime minister," a student said, waiting
outside the CNES campus on Saturday to meet Modi who toured the space
agency and showed interest in all the exhibits there.
"We want that he should interact with us. We have been waiting to meet him," said another student.
Modi,
emerging from the CNES, posed for selfies with them as all the students
raised their smartphones to click photographs with the prime minister.
He also posed for a group photograph with the students. Some of them also shouted slogans of "Bharat Mata ki Jai".
The students said they are keen to help India with the knowledge and training they have gained at the space agency.
"We
will be contributing to India, and sharing the knowledge we have gained
here when we get back in India, and transfer all the knowledge to
India," said another student.
"India and France have strong
cooperation in space and we are trying to boost it. We have learnt a lot
of new things here, gained a lot of practical knowledge."
At the
Airbus facility in Toulouse too, which Modi visited earlier, he posed
for selfies with many Indians employed at Airbus. He later visited the
Prefecture (Grande Salle, Palais National) in Toulouse.