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| Standing ovation for Modi in the British Parliament (video below) |
November 12, 2015, NewsCrunch
PM Modi won a standing ovation in the British Parliament after becoming the first Indian Prime Minister to address it.
As he ended his speech at the House of Commons, British MPs led by Prime Minister Cameron stood up and applauded the speech.
The clip, which showed the standing ovation, quickly went viral. A Times Now clip generated over 30,000 view on Facebook in the first hour of its upload.
In the speech laced with humour, Modi called for a global fight against terror, besides recalling Britain's shared history with India.
The speech and the standing ovation thrilled his supporters, who have seen their leader hit by a string of reverses, in the recent weeks. Their excitement soon gave way to anger against media and Modi's political critics, who they say, remain prejudiced against him.
The also picked on BBC and The Guardian reporters who had asked Modi a question about intolerance controversy in India during the press conference.
Video: Watch PM Modi getting standing ovation in British Parliament
A standing ovation is usual. But a reverberating and thunderous applause is what makes it count. Brilliant speech....India is proud today..for after ages we got such a confident PM Narendra Modi
Posted by Ruchita Malpani on Thursday, November 12, 2015
Modi supporters slam media, critics after standing ovation
@narendramodi Very Happy to see Narendraji the Mother of all British Parliament giving you Standing Ovation after Your Excellent Speech.— Karavadi Raghava Rao (@karavadiraghava) November 12, 2015Standing ovation to Modi!! Idea of UK is in danger. :D #ModiInUK— गोबर जी (@GobarJiTweets) November 12, 2015UK MPs gave standing ovation to Modi, not because they love him, but they respect India's PM A lesson our anti-Modi Indians can learn— Manish Kumar Kashyap (@ModiBihar) November 12, 2015@gauravcsawant won't be surprised if @ndtv headline is ' shame on UK MPs for giving standing ovation to leader of intolerant nation.— तेनाली रामा ® (@samvitaroop) November 12, 2015@waglenikhil plz retweet the pic of standing ovation in UK parliament also... otherwise people will think you are a biased journalist— Tejas Bothe (@tejasbothe) November 12, 2015@samjawed65@waglenikhil Did u see the UK MPs ,such bhakts who gave a standing ovation to PM Modi. Keep it going. India is a free country.— Pramod Kumar Singh (@SinghPramod2784) November 12, 2015After hearing that PM Modi received standing ovation in British Parliament. AK Anthony : pic.twitter.com/FCAKH8IrSm— Shekhar Chandra (@cshekhar3) November 12, 2015He came. He spoke. He got standing ovation . He left. #ModiInUK— Arshit Pathak (@arshpath) November 12, 2015@rachitseth@gsurya 1st time an Indian PM #ModiInUK addresses British Parliament 2 standing Ovation BUT IndiaMedia focused @ Intolerance— Ajay Lodha (@ispastwadi) November 12, 2015#ModiInUK now all the UK MP are giving standing ovation to Modi Ji....are they Bhakts?? Or paid audience ??? Wat say prestitute??— kumar mayuresh (@Watching_game) November 12, 2015