Might be More Apt to Compare India With Other Democracies: Modi on Comparisons With China!

Prime Minister Narendra Modi remarked in an interview with the Financial Times that it may be more appropriate to compare India’s democracy and development with those of other democracies rather than China. On questions about administrative hurdles and the skill gap, the PM answered that if it were really as bad as this, then India would not have developed into the world’s fastest-growing economy.

The Prime Minister also offered his first response during the interview to US charges that India had been involved in foiling a plot against a Sikh separatist. But he emphasised that India’s standpoint was the rule of law, and if someone provided information, New Delhi would investigate.

To the British Daily, Modi stressed that there is bipartisan consensus on furthering India-US ties and that one cannot mix a few events with diplomatic relations. We’d certainly like to investigate whatever someone may tell us,” Modi told the FT. “If a person from our country has done something good or bad, we are open and willing to find out about it, of course. He says we are just dedicated to the rule of law.

Pointing to the economic success of the Parsi community, PM Modi said: Though their brethren elsewhere in the world have faced persecution, they live happily and prosperously in India. That indicates that Indian society as a whole doesn’t harbour any sense of discrimination against religious minorities.

The aspirations of the people in India today are very different from those ten years ago. But they understand that our country is just about to take off. What they want is that this flight be made quickly. They also know that “the best party is the one which got them here to begin with, ” he said.