Addressing the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that various schemes initiated by his government such as ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’, ‘Ayushman Bharat’ and ‘Jan Dhan’ were a model for other countries to emulate.

Earlier, Modi began by mentioning about him having got the “highest number of votes” in “the biggest election in world’s biggest democracy” (in reference to this year’s Lok Sabha elections), and stressed that the “message behind this huge mandate” was bigger and “more inspiring”.

He said that when a developing country successfully completes world’s largest cleanliness mission by building 11 crore toilets in five years, it gives an “inspiring message” to the whole world.

The Prime Minister went on to mention others schemes like health insurance scheme ‘Ayushman Bharat’ and bank accounts for the poor, or Jan Dhan scheme and insisted that these were models and inspirations for world’s other countries.