Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday backed India’s ability to overcome challenges of global economic uncertainty. Speaking at News18’s Rising Bharat Summit 2025, he said despite global challenges, India has raced fast and doubled the size of its economy in just a decade. He came to power in 2014, leading the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to its first single-party majority in the Lok Sabha election.
Taking a potshot at his political rival, the Congress party, PM Modi said the new Waqf law was a significant move of his government towards social justice, contending that the previous law, enacted in 2013 by the then-Manmohan Singh government, was an attempt for appeasement of land mafia and Muslim fundamentalists.
PM Modi said the politics of appeasement was at the root of the debate over the issue of Waqf and it brought the Congress to power and some Muslim fundamentalists became rich.
Here’s the English translation of PM Modi’s speech on the opening day of the two-day the Rising Bharat Summit, underway at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi:
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