India will be a developed nation when it celebrates 100 years of Independence, and it will have no place for corruption, casteism and communalism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told news agency PTI in an interview today.
“India will be a developed nation by 2047; corruption, casteism and communalism will have no place in our national life,” the Prime Minister said.
Speaking about the upcoming G20 summit in New Delhi, the Prime Minister said the world looks to India for guidance. “Our words and vision are seen by the world as a roadmap for the future and not merely ideas,” he said. The world’s GDP-centric view is changing to a human-centric one, and India is playing the catalyst in this transformation, the Prime Minister said.
Stressing on how the world’s perception of India is changing, the Prime Minister said, “For long, India was seen as a country of one billion hungry stomachs. Now it is one billion aspirational minds and two billion skilled hands.”
On a question on the position India took on the Russia-Ukraine war, the Prime Minister reiterated that dialogue and diplomacy are the only way to resolve conflicts.
India’s refusal to side with any camp and consistently advocate dialogue had sparked criticism from some quarters. Some voices in the West had also slammed India’s decision to buy fuel from Russia even after the Vladimir Putin dispensation faced sanctions from Europe and the US.
