Landmark achievement: Political leaders from throughout get together traces hail Chandrayaan-3’s profitable touchdown on Moon | India Information

NEW DELHI: India scripted history on Wednesday as Chandrayaan-3 lander module successfully landed on the Moon’s South Pole. With this, India became the first country to achieve the historic feat.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing Isro scientists virtually from Johannesburg, said India made a resolve ‘on the Earth and fulfilled it on the Moon’. “India’s successful Moon mission is not India’s alone … Our approach of one earth, one family one future is resonating across the globe … Moon mission is based on the same human centric approach. So, this success belongs to all of humanity,” he said.

The Prime Minister watched the landing live from Johannesburg, South Africa where he is currently participating in the Brics summit.
Political leaders from across party lines took to X (formerly Twitter) to congratulate Isro and hail the successful landing on Moon’s South Pole.
The Congress termed the success of Chandrayaan-3 the collective success of every Indian. Party president Mallikarjun Kharge said an elated nation with 140 crore aspirations today witnessed yet another achievement in its six-decade-long space programme and the entire world is looking up to Isro which is a matter of special pride for all Indians.

“We are deeply indebted to the remarkable hard work, unparalleled ingenuity and unflinching dedication of our scientists, space engineers, researchers and everyone involved in making this mission a triumph for India,” Kharge said.
Union home minister Amit Shah hailed the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the lunar surface and said with this, India became the first nation to touch the south pole of the moon.

“This landmark achievement is not only a testament to the power of Indian genius but it also launches India’s voyage through the Amrit Kaal to emerge as a global leader in the realm of space, as envisioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ji,” Shah wrote on ‘X’.
“Sky is not the limit,” said Union minister Jitendra Singh adding that the country is converting into reality what the world dreams of.
“While the world fantasises about the moon, we have actually felt the moon … the world dreams of the moon, and we have seen the dream getting converted into reality … sky is not the limit,” Singh said.
Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi congratulated the Isro team for today’s “pioneering feat”. “Chandrayaan3’s soft landing on the uncharted lunar South Pole is the result of decades of tremendous ingenuity and hard work by our scientific community,” he said.

Joining the country in congratulating the scientists of Isro, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said, “Our scientists have testified the country’s scientific and technological progress. India is now in the super league of space. Sincere congratulations to all the proud architects and stakeholders of the expedition”.
“India will lead the world on the path of both material as well as spiritual progress,” RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said congratulating the scientists and government after the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 on Moon.
President Droupadi Murmu said that the landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the lunar surface was “truly a momentous occasion” which happens once in a lifetime and it has made the whole country proud.
Congratulating the Isro team, CJI DY Chandrachud termed the landing on Moon ‘historic’.
“It is with immense pride as a citizen of our great nation that I witnessed the remarkable landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon today. It is all the more significant because India is the only nation to have achieved the lunar landing on the south pole of the Moon,” he said.