HT interview: Committed to empowering poor, women, middle class, says Modi

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he is committed to strengthening and structuring the GYANM model that empowers Gareeb, Yuva, Annadata, Nari Shakti, and Middle Class in such a way that they become the architects of Viksit Bharat or developed India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he never thinks about what is next for him “Having filled the gaping holes left by 60 years of Congress rule in our first term and putting India on a fast track of growth in our second term, our third term will be an era of accelerated development at a scale never seen before,” he said in an interview with R Sukumar, Shishir Gupta, and Sunetra Choudhury. Whether it was in terms of action against Article 370 in Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh, successful management of COVID-19, sending vaccines and medicines to various countries, or the foreign policy successes in the post-pandemic world order, many such developments have given the people of India a new-found confidence in themselves and the country’s future.” Modi said the people were earlier shackled due to poverty, corruption, and misrule. But our work of the last few years has given wings to the people’s aspirations and organically given rise to the vision of building a developed India by 2047.” He said the big theme of his third term will be imparting momentum across sectors towards the realisation of this vision.