India will become third-largest economy in my third term: Modi at inauguration of G20 summit venue

Speaking at the inauguration of the revamped India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) complex, the prime minister said India’s infrastructure is changing from east to west and north to south.

• Shubham
• 26 July, 2023

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By: Shubham Ghosh

INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (26) promised the country’s unprecedented growth during his third term in office that will put it among the top three economies in the world.

Speaking at the inauguration of the revamped India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) complex in New Delhi’s Pragati Maidan renamed ‘Bharat Mandapam’, the prime minister said India’s infrastructure is changing from east to west and north to south. He inaugurated the complex by flying a drone.

He added that the world’s highest railway bridge, longest tunnel at the highest altitude, highest motorable road, largest stadium and the largest statue lie in India.

Narendra Modi on Twitter: “Honouring the Shramiks who have toiled to build the impressive International Exhibition-cum-Convention Centre in Delhi. https://t.co/C7zmdG4csf” / Twitter

Narendra Modi on Twitter: “Delhi gets a modern and futuristic International Exhibition-cum-Convention Centre, which will boost conference tourism in India, thus bringing people from all over the world. The economic and tourism related benefits of the centre will also be multifold. https://t.co/57cdCnu63T” / Twitter

The revamped venue will host the G20 summit in September. Modi offered puja at the inauguration and also felicitated the workers who built the structure.

Modi also said that the country’s economic growth will keep pace with its aspirations.

He said India was the world’s 10th largest economy when he took over as the prime minister in 2014. In his second term which started in 2019, it became the world’s fifth largest.

“On the basis of track record, I will make the country believe, in the third term, the economy will be among the world’s top three,” he said, according to reports..

“In my third term, India will stand among the top three economies. And this is Modi’s guarantee”.

Modi will seek this third consecutive mandate next year when India goes to the national elections. Both in the 2014 and 2019 elections, his Bharatiya Janata Party secured landslide victories.

“In the last 60 years, India managed to electrify only 20,000 kilometres (km) of rail lines compared to the 40,000 km achieved by his government in the last nine years… Now every month, we are completing 6 kilometres of metro line, less than four lakh km of village roads… In 2014, Delhi airport’s capacity was around five crore a year. Now it is 7.5 crore… The number of airports has reached 150,” he added.

The prime minister also slammed his political rivals on the occasion alleging there have been “negative minded” people who tried to oppose the ‘Bharat Mandapam’ project.