Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday held an event in New York for thousands of Indians living in the US.
Prime Minister Modi hailed India as the “land of opportunity” and called on Indian immigrants to serve as “brand ambassadors” for the aspirational nation.
Modi spoke Trump delivered the speech at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Long Island on the first day of a three-day US visit that also includes a Quad summit on Sunday and is due to conclude with the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Indian Media Observer Participants at Modi's event on Long Island, attended by about 13,000 people, noted that much of his speech sounded like a victory lap. victory The speech and Modi's schedule for Sunday and Monday, ahead of his unprecedented re-election to a third term in June, were filled with optimism about India's emergence as a technology and industrial powerhouse under his leadership.
“After this rigorous electoral process, this lengthy electoral system, something unprecedented has happened in India,” Modi said at an event on Long Island.
What happened, he said, was “Abki Baar Modi Sarkar” — a slogan the prime minister has been using since his first election campaign, which essentially means “Now is Modi's time.” A poem It is familiar to Urdu speakers and is also considered very catchy among Modi's supporters.
“For the first time in 60 years, the people of India have given me a mandate of great significance. In my third term, we have to achieve very ambitious goals. We have to go forward with three times the strength,” Modi said, an oblique reference to independent India's first leader, Jawaharlal Nehru, the only other prime minister to win a third term.
Modi is actually led the crowd He celebrated his election victory with a bit of call-and-response, posing questions to the crowd like “What happened?” and “What's next?” to which the crowd responded, “Modi won!”
“Every Indian has confidence in India and its achievements. India today is the land of opportunities. We are no longer waiting for opportunities, we are now creating opportunities,” PM Modi boasted on Sunday.
Modi said India has become a global power but not a hegemon, a rhetorical device he used to explain why India seeks to maintain good relations with both the United States and Russia despite Russia's aggression in Ukraine.
Prime Minister Modi said, Quad Conference Quad is a four-nation security cooperation organization in the Indo-Pacific region consisting of India, Australia, Japan and the United States.
“We are not against anyone. We all support a rules-based international order, respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, and peaceful resolution of all disputes,” Prime Minister Modi said at the Quad meeting. It seems It is China that needs to be confronted, and China is a threat to the region. Becoming more aggressive Territorial claims.
Modi made clear at the Long Island event that he felt India had done enough to combat climate change and that he expected other countries to make the necessary sacrifices in energy, industrial capacity and lifestyles. He noted that China and the United States have bigger carbon dioxide emissions than India.
“India accounts for around 17 per cent of the world's population, yet its contribution to emissions is only around 4 per cent,” he said.
It was one of the few moments during Modi's US visit where he criticised his host country, save for a sarcastic remark in his speech suggesting that India's major elections in June were more orderly than the ongoing US elections.
“The Indian elections are over and are currently underway in the US. The elections held in India were the biggest in the history of mankind. When we see the scale of Indian democracy, we feel even more proud,” PM Modi said.
Modi said India and the US will “celebrate democracy together” and set an encouraging example of peaceful elections at a time when “conflict is escalating between some countries in the world”.
The Indian Prime Minister spent some time Praise He noted the progress Indian women have made under his administration, noting that hundreds of thousands of women entrepreneurs have become successful, home ownership has become more common among women and women are playing key roles in innovative industries like drone piloting.
Modi is actually addressing a political and cultural crisis regarding the mistreatment of women in the country. Spur The rape and murder of a young medical intern in Kolkata sparked anger over continued abuse of women in many parts of Indian society, sparking mass protests and a doctors' strike. Modi's opponents have sought to blame him and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in part for the abusive atmosphere.
