Rajnath Singh urges students to idealise APJ Abdul Kalam

Pune (Maharashtra): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on May 20, while advising the students to understand the importance of education and employ it in a positive manner, urged them to idealise former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam. "Despite being a millionaire someone can become Osama bin Laden while despite being a newspaper vendor someone can become APJ Abdul Kalam. This is the basic difference between the two which depends on ethos," said the minister while addressing the convocation of DY Patil Vidyapeeth in Pune. "We have seen that after taking complex pilot training in the US, young people carried out an attack of 9/11. In India too, there're young people involved in terrorist activities people who're quite educated," he added. Citing an example of an article written by Thomas L. Friedman, Singh said, "In the article, people both in Infosys and Al Qaeda are highly educated, have mission and commitment. But the difference between the two is that one carries out 9/11 attacks while the other works for the society."