Paris Paralympics 2024: PM Modi Dials Medal Winners, Says ‘You Have Made Country Proud’

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a telephone conversation with Mona Agarwal, Preethi Pal, Manish Narwal and Rubina Francis – medal winners at the ongoing Paris Paralympics 2024. However, PM Modi wasn’t able to speak with shooter Avani Lekhara as the latter was competing at an event on the same time. while Mona won bronze medal in women’s 10m air rifle, Preethi brought India’s first-ever athletics medal (bronze medal in the women’s 100m T35 class) at the Paralympics. Both Manish (silver medal in the men’s 10m air pistol shooting SH1) and Rubina (bronze medal in the Women’s 10m air pistol SH1) won medals in shooting.

PM Modi congratulated everyone and said that they have made the country proud with their performances. He appreciated and told them that the whole nation was proud of them.

Today, Prime Minister @narendramodi held a telephonic conversation with the Indian medal winners in the Paralympic Games till now. These included Mona Agarwal, Preethi Pal, Manish Narwal and Rubina Francis.

PM Modi congratulated each of the winners and said they have made the… pic.twitter.com/WDL0qXJ9TS

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He also wished Avani who won the gold medal in the 10m air rifle shooting SH1 class and wished success in her other endeavours in the Games. All the medal winners were motivated by PM Modi’s call and said that they would clinch more medals for India ahead. They were happy and talking about the weather and they also talked about how the time changed when India was not able to clinch medals and now everyone come to show their talent and make sure they clinch a medal for their nation.