Nickson Laisram from Imphal who asked PM Modi, "How can I become the PM?"
During his nationally telecast and highly-debated speech on Teachers' Day, the Prime Minister had to contend with a scene-stealer. 17-year-old Nickson Laisram from Imphal delivered a block-buster moment when he asked the Prime Minister Modi, "How can I become the PM?"
Mr Modi laughed heartily before delivering his response. "Start preparing for 2024 elections. It also means till then I do not have any threat."
Nickson says he can't really give the PM an A+ for that answer. "The answer he gave was satisfactory, but I was expecting more. Like me, our Prime Minister also comes from a humble background so I wanted him to tell us how we can make that big, how we can be like him, how we can achieve in life. That whole context was missing."
But the teen, who says that just in case he does not make PM, he would like to be an IAS officer.
He says he was inspired by the PM's 120-minute speech and the questions that were put to him by students from across the country through video-conferencing, just like Nickson. "This was a great opportunity. Our PM inspired the young minds with his words and that's what I liked the most."
Nickson said he was chosen by his teachers as he was the captain of his school. "The thing I liked most about the Prime Minister's speech is that he said you must have aspirations and dreams and you should follow them. Those were really inspiring words," he added.
Though he has begun preparing for the civil services examination, Nickson says he loves to read comics and other story books in his spare time. His favourite subjects are Science and Mathematics.
His father is a high school teacher and he has five sisters.