According to Variety, the newly elected Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the claim while speaking at a satellite launch earlier this afternoon at Sriharikota, a spaceport in southern India. Said the politician,
While the event was being held to send up the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle - which was carrying satellites from Germany, France, Canada and Singapore - the trade report says that even India's Mars probe program has a price tag of just INR 4.5 billion ($73 million).
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