Chak de India: Politicians react after Chandrayaan's moon landing
de India," Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann tweeted. «Chand mubarak», Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav said.
People burst crackers and politicians took to the renamed Twitter as Chandrayaan-3 made it Wednesday evening to the moon, its lander touching down softly near the south pole.
In a video message shortly before the actual landing, Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar, began by saying «Arre wah maaza aa gaya. Now, the moon has come even closer».
And Yadav wrote on X, formerly Twitter, «Chand mubarak. Now we have to go farther...»
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said, «Chandrayan-3 landed on the moon with the dreams of 140 crore Indians.»
Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar tweeted, «ISRO promised the #MOON — and 'delivered' it.
Along with the country's space agency, he also thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In Jaipur, people celebrated the touchdown by bursting crackers. They were out on the streets with the tricolour.
At his home, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot watched the landing on television with a bunch of schoolchildren.
The Congress leader took note of the „hard work“ by ISRO scientists, and also gave credit to former prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi for the achievement.
»This unprecedented world-level success achieved by the country is the result of the tireless work of scientists and the foresight of Nehru ji and Indira ji towards space research. India has become a global space power today by setting up an institute for space research only a few years after independence," he said.
Selja, senior Congress leader from Haryana, too acknowledged «the vision of former prime minister Indira Gandhi» as well as the «untiring efforts of space scientist Vikram Sarabhai».
Sukhvinder Singh
