The Prime Minister said this after inaugurating the International Exhibition-cum-Convention Centre (IECC) complex — Bharat Mandapam — at Pragati Maidan in the national capital.
“I want to assure the people of India that in the third term, our country will be among the top 3 economies in the world,” PM Modi said, asserting that BJP will come to power again in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
PM Modi reiterated that in his third term, India will proudly stand amongst the top 3 global economies.
“We will reach there. Yeh Modi ki guarantee hai (This is Modi’s guarantee),” he said, evoking a rousing applause from the crowd.
“I want to assure the people of India that after 2024, in BJP’s third term, India’s development journey will progress at an even faster pace,” PM Modi said.
India is now achieving things that were unimaginable earlier
PM Modi
India is currently the 5th largest economy in the world after US, China, Japan and Germany. Under PM Modi, India has improved its position from the 10th largest economy in the world to the 5th largest economy. It recently surpassed UK.
India can definitely eradicate poverty, PM Modi said at the event, citing a NITI Aayog report that talked of 13.5 crore poor being lifted out of poverty.
Reeling out statistics of development from the number of airports to railway line electrification to expansion of city gas during his nine-year tenure, the Prime Minister said India was the 10th largest economy when the BJP government took office in 2014.
“We will make India a developed nation working on the principle of nation first, citizen first,” he said.
During his speech in the US Congress last month, PM Modi had asserted that India will become the 3rd largest economy in the world during his third term.
Speaking about India’s development journey at the ITPO inauguration event, PM Modi said that his government has set a target for the next 25 years with a dream to make India a developed nation.