Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted the para-athletes who made India proud at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Japan.

A video of the PM’s interaction with the para-athletes was made available at 11 am  on September 12.

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PM Modi hosted the Indian contingent, which included the para-athletes alongside their coaches, at his residence on September 9.

Modi lauded the athletes for their top-notch performance in Japan and congratulated them for bringing India glory in different sports.

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Watch the full interaction below.

The athletes and coaches thanked the prime minister for inviting them over.

More than 50 Indian para-athletes representing 9 different sports flew to Tokyo, making it the biggest ever Indian contingent to the Paralympic Games. 

The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games turned out to be a historic tournament for India as the para-athletes clinched 19 medals across various sports.

During their interaction, the athletes honoured the PM by presenting him their signed sporting equipment along with a stole signed by all medallists.

The Paralympics involved a record number of athletes — 4,405 — and a record number of countries won medals. They also saw two athletes from Afghanistan compete, both of whom arrived several days late after fleeing Kabul.

Next up are the Beijing Winter Olympics, opening in five month. They have been billed as the “Genocide Games” by rights groups that want the Games pulled from China because of the reported internment of at least 1 million Uyghurs and other largely Muslim ethnic groups in Xinjiang in northwestern China.