India Has Inspired World: Jaishankar On Chandrayaan-3 Mission Success

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday recalled his experience at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg during the landing of Chandrayaan 3, saying that India has inspired the world.

Speaking at an event at Delhi University, Jaishankar also shared the success of India during the pandemic and said that India helped several countries by providing them with vaccines.

“At the BRICS summit, we were physically present there (South Africa), mentally we were in Bengaluru. We took a break in between the summit to see the live landing. That evening there was only one topic of conversation at the summit is Chandrayaan 3 landing,” he said.

“The greatest satisfaction for me that I felt the message was ‘India has done it, the leaders of Asia, Latin America and African nations feel motivated.’ I felt that the message:’ What you have done has inspired the world’. Everything we are doing is relevant to the world,” he added.

The event was organised at Delhi University on the theme “G20 Presidency and its Global Impact” and was presided over by University Vice Chancellor, Professor Yogesh Singh.

ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the south pole of the moon on 23 August, making it the first country to have achieved the historic feat and bringing to an end the disappointment over the crash landing of the Chandrayaan-2, four years ago.

The country became the fourth– after the US, China, and Russia to have successfully landed on the moon’s surface.

The stated objectives of Chandrayaan 3, India's third lunar mission, were a safe and soft landing on the lunar surface, the rover moving on the moon's surface and in-situ scientific experiments. (ANI)