NEW DELHI: While acknowledging the protests triggered by his statement on Balochistan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he might’ve forgotten to mention the names of those people who had thanked him.
“It was so silly of me not mentioning the names. You see, my brain is as old as I am. Let me recall the names. What was it,” the Indian prime minister told reporters as he struggled with his memory.
“Who was it? Was it Donald Trump? No! No! No! I haven’t even met him in person. Who was it? O gosh! Why is it so difficult to remember the names? Was it Lord Mountbatten?”
One reporter decided to help Modi with his misery, but the man, known for hugging world leaders from behind, stopped him right in the process. “I might be struggling to remember the names, but I don’t require foreign aid. In fact this struggle of people who forget names is another one that India will take up at the United Nations.” But then he recalled everything.
“Yes! I remember now. They were the people who had been my regular customers when I used to sell tea. How wasn’t I able to recall their names? They were the ones who helped me when I was broke as hell.”
The Indian prime minister, with tears of joy running down his eyes, told reporters he was going to pay his ‘friends’ a personal visit. “I will visit my friends. They were my venture capitalists. They financed my tea project.”
When asked why he wasn’t able to recall their names, the Indian prime minster angrily said, “What do you want to do with their names? Do you want to erect a statue in their honour?”
“Those people deserve more than that. They deserve a greater reward. They deserve me. They deserve a Modi hug. I’ll visit them in person,” he said.
This article originally appeared in KhabaristanTimes and has been reproduced with permission.
