'India is not slow and steady, it's fast and fearless': PM Modi at Rising Bharat Summit | Full text

In a very short time, many types of global challenges came but India did not stop, India ran at double the speed, PM Modi said in his keynote address at the Rising Bharat Summit 2025 in New Delhi 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. 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. Vajpayee ji’s government went, Congress government came, then the bridge work also got stuck.