India's efforts, opinion receiving importance today like never before: PM Modi
The Hindu
Modi highlights India's global contributions, economic growth, and anti-corruption efforts at TV9 Summit, emphasising "India first" foreign policy.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (March 28, 2025) asserted that the importance of India's efforts, innovations and opinions are receiving today never happened earlier.
Speaking at the TV9 Summit on the theme of "What India Thinks Today", PM Modi said India is not only participating in the world order but also contributing to making its future safe and secure.
Taking an apparent swipe at opposition parties for their criticism of probe agencies like the Enforcement Directorate (ED), he said, “those who looted the public money have had to return it”.
"The ED is being abused day and night. It has recovered over ₹22,000 crore. This money is being returned legally to those from whom it was looted," he said.
He said the country has travelled from aspiration to achievement and from desperation to development under his government's over 10-year tenure, citing its massive welfare programmes for health insurance, cooking gas cylinders, building toilets and supplying piped drinking water.
“India is now not only a nation that dreams but also a nation that delivers,” he said.
Asserting that the world's eyes are on India, he said it wants to know what the country thinks today.
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