Bharat's achievements in diverse fields bring stability to the world and have emerged as 'Vishwa-Mitra (Universal Friend). Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership, the country's developmental approach has also kept global welfare in mind. "There is trust now in India," PM Modi has said. The level of importance being attributed to India is unprecedented.
Over the last decade, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership, Bharat has emerged as a dependable 'Vishwamitra'. India's achievements in diverse fields are bringing stability to the world.
In fact, under the leadership of Narendra Modi, India has emerged as the 'Vishwa-Mitra' and 'Vishwa Ka Atut Saathi' (World's reliable partner) following its contribution to helping the globe deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The world lauded India for its remarkable recovery and rebuilding after the disastrous COVID-19 pandemic. India had performed a "vaccine miracle" and generously provided 300 million vaccines to over 100 countries. This "Vaccine Maitri" created enormous goodwill, with some foreign leaders referring to the Indian vaccine as having saved their lives and still coursing through their veins.
Both Indians and foreigners have recognised the economic and technological progress that India has made, including in Tech 4.0 ( the integration of intelligent digital technologies into manufacturing and industrial processes) and frontier areas like artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and space. The triumph of Chandrayaan-3's landing on Shiv Shakti Point, prodigious sustainable and inclusive development—Sabka Vikas Sabka Saath (Development for all, with all)—efforts and impressive social transformation projects are a beacon, a lighthouse with possibilities of their replicability and scaling up in the Global South and even the North. India has become the fastest-growing, fifth-largest, and soon-to-be third-largest economy globally. New Bharat's Everything is Possible confidence and being in a geopolitical sweet spot has created a positive sentiment worldwide.
Achieving consensus during conflict in a deeply polarised world is a landmark, demonstrating Bharat's ability to manage relationships and maintain friendships across the spectrum. Despite differences over the Russia-Ukraine war, the Delhi Declaration in 2023 was a "100% consensus" on all developmental and geopolitical issues. The G20 Summit in Delhi was a milestone that demonstrated the grand success of Modi government diplomacy as the conference didn't allow the war in Ukraine to take over the agenda. Instead, the topic that has haunted the world since Feb 2021 proved to be the most divisive issue at the G20 Bali Declaration in 2022. Conversely, India pulled off a big diplomatic win after the world leaders adopted a consensus declaration overcoming major differences in the Russia-Ukraine war, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for ending the "global trust deficit." Moreover, India was also able to bring a consensus among the leaders to condemn terrorism in all its forms and called for strengthening efforts to increase the effectiveness of international cooperation to deny terrorist groups safe haven, freedom of operations, as well as financial, material or political support. PM Narendra Modi also persuaded G20 leaders to agree to pursue tripling renewable energy capacity globally by 2030 and accepted the need to phase down unabated coal power. The negotiator approach, adopted by the Modi government, is to tackle issues one by one through dialogue.
Prime Minister Modi is the main representative of 'Vishwamitra Bharat' and gave the world the 'Vishwa Mantra' of Sabka Saath, or inclusion. The inclusion of the African Union, also at the G20 summit as a permanent member, is the biggest testament of Sabka Saath. In the words of Narendra Modi, it was also an "inclusive and human-centric" approach to International affairs. The leaders across the world lauded the PM, as India's initiative and achievements in diverse fields bring stability to the world.
Over the last nine years, India has emerged as the first responder in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) globally. In keeping with its cultural beliefs of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam – the whole world is one family, India has been playing an important role in providing HADR in the region and beyond. Operation Maitri – rescue operations during earthquake in Nepal, Assistance to Sri Lanka in 2016 during Cyclone Roanu, earthquake in Indonesia in 2018, flooding in Madagascar in January 2020, Operation Dost, a search and rescue operation to help Syria and Turkey after the 2023 earthquake, and Covid vaccines, described earlier, all are a significant contribution to the VishwaMitra credentials of New Modi, under PM Narendra Modi leadership.
However, the idea of VishwaMitra encompasses India's interests. To succeed in ongoing programmes such as Make in India, Skill India, Smart Cities, infrastructure development, Digital India, Swacha Bharat, etc., it needs foreign partners, Foreign Direct Investments, and technology transfer. As the Modi Ki Guarantee that India will be in the world's top three economies in the coming five years, Prime Narendra Modi's VishwaMitra Diplomacy is primarily for India's development as it integrates economic diplomacy with political diplomacy.
