Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a page from President Donald Trump's playbook at a joint press conference on Thursday, saying he wants to make India great again or create a “miga.”
Modi met up with Trump at the White House. There, world leaders discussed a variety of issues, including trade, the economic relations between India and the US, and military sales.
At a press conference, Modi said he was focusing on his Indian people's legacy and how to ensure that his country will be developed by 2047.
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President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will shake hands at a press conference in the Eastern White House room on Thursday. (Photo by Alex Brandon)
“By borrowing expression from America, our vision for a developed India is to make India great again, or Miga great,” he said through a translator. “When America and India work together, that is, Maga and Miga, it becomes a huge partnership for prosperity.
“And it is this mega spirit that gives our purpose a new scale and scope.”
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi refers to President Donald Trump in Washington at a press conference in the East Room of the White House on Thursday, February 13, 2025. (Photo by Alex Brandon)
At the start of the press conference, Trump announced that the US would provide Indian F-35 fighter jets and increase military sales to the country by billions of dollars.
Trump also said his administration has approved the extradition of Tahooul Rana, a Canadian citizen from Pakistan, who is one of the plotters in the 2008 deadly terrorist attack that killed 160 people.
“I'm happy to announce that my administration has approved the extradition of one of the plotters and one of the very evil people of the world.
Additionally, Modi said India would accept illegal US Indian immigrants who have returned home.
On February 5th, 2025, US military plane deports illegal Indian immigrants to Amritsar, India. (Adnan Avidi)
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“Everyone who enters another country illegally,” Modi said, “they have no right to be in that country at all.
“And as far as India and the US are concerned, we have always had the same opinion: that verified Indians who are illegally in the US are ready to bring them back to India.”
