Only in India a tea seller can become a PM,U.S defence secretary says

"There are few places in the world other than India and the US where the son of a tea-seller in a small-time town can rise to be the Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) or the child of a Kenyan father can rise to be the President (Barack Obama)," he said while talking about the opportunities available in the two countries.
The American defence secretary was speaking at the silver jubilee function of the Observer's Research Foundation (ORF).Before joining politics and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Modi used to sell tea in trains and help his father run a small tea stall in Gujarat.

Obama's father was of Kenyan origin and his mother an American citizen.
US defence secretary Chuck Hagel suggested that India and America should expand their defence ties and include Japan in their security cooperation partnership.
"Just like the US need not choose between its Asian alliances and its constructive relationship with China, similarly India need not choose between its closer relationship with America and improved ties with China. In our relations with Beijing, both Delhi and Washington, should see a healthy competition and we should avoid the traps of rivalry," he said at an Observer Research Foundation function here.
Hagel said the US wants to work for a peaceful global order in which "China was also a trustee" and both India and America should continue to work with it in the future.