Good, Talented People Should Join Politics: PM

NEW DELHI: Regretting that politics has acquired a bad name and is scaring away good people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked people from all walks of life to join it and not be apprehensive about it.

In his second interaction with students on Teachers' Day celebration after becoming the PM, Modi gave a pep talk asking students not to get deterred by failure in pursuit of their goals while advising parents to refrain from foisting their own career choices on children.

Encouraging students to develop leadership qualities, the PM said he has asked the HRD Minisry to award aptitude certificates rather than character certificates, relflecting the overall personality of students when they leave school.

During a candid interaction with students, Modi lamented, "Politics has aquired a bad name in the country. People fear, they cannot come here and that good people should not join it. This has hurt the country much," he said.

A relaxed Modi responded to a range of questions including on his school days and dress sense during his 105-minute interaction with 800 students and 60 teachers from schools in Delhi who participated in the event at the Manekshaw auditorium here. Students from nine other states joined the programme through video conference.

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