Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Mumbai on Thursday to address a conference on financial inclusion organised to mark 80 years of existence of the Reserve Bank of India.
"Can't we ask ourselves how we can make our banking system so strong that no farmer is forced to give up his life just because he can't repay the loan (from money lenders)?" the PM said.
Addressing the issue of subsidies, he said, "I had just suggested that people who can afford should not take gas subsidies. Look at the response in our country. Two lakh people gave up gas subsidies. But this is not a ploy to save money. We just want to give that cylinder to a household that still uses wood for cooking, so that the poor family does not suffer."
The Prime Minister's speech got a fabulous response from captains of industry like Anand Mahindra who tweeted, "RBI's 80th anniversary function is not where you'd expect @PMOIndia to make an inspired&impassioned extempore speech--but that's what he did."
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