Prime Minister Modi encouraged the diaspora to bring Indian products to the international market and become actively invested in India’s growth path to 2047. He also ensured the students that to do anything will benefit India and thus the need to make efforts in developing the nation.
PM Modi’s Message on Peace and Buddha at Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention
Bhubaneswar: Addressing the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention for the first time on Thursday Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent out a message across the world saying, ‘Bhavishya yuddh mein nahi, Buddha mein hai’.
He wondered how it was that when the world was enlarging empires via military conquests, India’s Emperor Ashoka chose the high road of nonviolence. Modi told his audience that this legacy of non violence as proposed by Buddha still remains relevant for the people of India of the 21st century to convey the message to the world that the future belongs to peace and not war.
In her speech, the Prime Minister pointed out Dhauli which is just 20 kms from the convention venue at Janata Maidan, which is famous for Ashoka giving up war and embracing the path of Buddhism.
Modi also explained that leaders of countries pay lofty tributes to Indian Diaspora saying that such a people embody important social values. We are not just producers of democracy but it is in our blood to produce it. We DO NOT require diversity lessons because the community thrives with it. With any country they inhabit, they blend so well with such population, understanding all local cultures, and helping boost those. At the same time the country stands tall with pride to every accomplishment of India, he added.
The Prime Minister stressed the need to write down the history of Indians especially the Girmitiyas and proposed more annual World Girmitiya conferences. He advocated for the development of scholarly works, movies and documentaries about this group’s past. “Why not make a directory of Girmitiya friends entering into what part of India, where they migrated, what they endured and how they triumphed?” this, he said, and then professed that he would instruct his team to look for ways on how they could further improve this agenda.
Girmitiya means the indentured laborers who were taken to different colonies including Fiji South Africa, Mauritius and the Caribbean region of the world during late 19th and early twentieth century to work on plantations. Modi also pointed out on increased global footprint, when he boasted how India has managed to persuade the African Union into becoming a permanent member of the G20.
Speaking of India’s growth, he said that the nation had gradually moved from being the 10th largest economy to the 5th largest economy of the world. ”The day is not far when India will become the third largest economy of the world,” he added.
The convention which was held in honor of Mahatma Gandhi’s return to India in 1915 had institutional presentations by representatives from many parts of the world and even a recorded speech from the President of Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the Honourable Christine Carla Kangaloo.
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