After the G-20 Summit, a US-based survey agency giving top global rating to PM Modi among world leaders is proof of the global community looking to India under him as a major powerful player which could give solutions to the world.
NEW DELHI
After putting forth “Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas” as a guiding principle for global welfare at the G-20 Summit in New Delhi 9-10 September, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now determined to back up this “mantra” with action. The Prime Minister is more than keen to ensure that his “visionary perspective” for the world’s future takes shape on the ground so that the global community could see that the “Sabka Saath Sabka Vishwas” mantra is not just a formation of a few words that resonated at the global stage during the G-20 Summit but it is an ambitious and inclusive idea to be executed by India to ensure global peace and development in real sense of the term. Highly-placed diplomatic sources told The Sunday Guardian, “In days to come, the global community will witness high standards of diplomacy, guiding leadership, and massive bilateral and multilateral engagements, negotiations and other strategic efforts by India to address pressing global challenges and iron out differences among various countries in a bid to bridge the existing trust deficit.”
“A multilateral diplomacy will be at display to ensure several countries work together to address common issues and challenges,” sources said, adding that, “PM Modi’s trusted men External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and NSA Ajit Doval would be interacting more frequently with heads of states, and high officials in security and diplomatic establishments of different countries including, the US, the UK, Germany, Russia, France, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Australia. The idea would be to achieve shared goals and promote cooperation among nations.” “India would try to make the most of interactions and engagements at the multilateral and global forums such as BRICS, SCO, G7, G20, UNGA, UNSC, ASEAN, FATF, etc. in a bid to achieve this goal” sources said. “PM Modi’s focus is on promoting international cooperation and partnership like never before,” an official aware of the development told The Sunday Guardian.
A source said, “Just hours after conclusion of G-20 Summit, Modi spent a considerable amount of time discussing this agenda and action-plan with Jaishankar and Doval as the world community has high expectations from India in terms of mitigating problems and addressing different challenges.” “There would be collective efforts to expose the countries which create any obstacle in the implementation of the idea of Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas,” an official said. Foreign minister Jaishankar’s upcoming engagements at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on 26 September would be part of India’s diplomatic mission in this context, sources said. Jaishankar will address the 78th session of UNGA, during which he will lay emphasis on Modi’s ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’ mantra, stressing the need for the global institutions to help execute the idea. “He would urge the countries not to be a stumbling block in the path to this goal,” an official said. “His meetings with the foreign ministers of Quad member nations—US, Japan and Australia and Russia-China led SCO on the margin of UNGA meetings would also be significant from this perspective,” a source said. As PM Modi has advocated a shift from a GDP-centric approach to a human-centric one, Jaishankar would focus on the task of amplifying this message across the globe, using meetings with world leaders and his counterparts in different countries, sources said. “PM Modi will himself be leading from the front in the mission. Every time he speaks with US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Japanese premier Fumio Kishida and other head of states from now onwards, he will keep his focus also on promoting Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas idea with stress on its execution,” an official told this newspaper. The PM has already made it clear to the global leaders that Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas is not only for India it’s his great vision for the entire world. “Therefore, all the countries should come together to join India’s campaign to materialize it for the welfare of people across the globe and global peace,” a source said.
At the G20 Summit, Modi had urged world leaders to overcome the “crisis” global trust deficit and collectively work towards “concrete solutions” on all issues. “India invites the entire world to come together and, first and foremost, transform this Global Trust Deficit into global trust and confidence,” Modi said at the G20 summit, adding, “This is a time for all of us to walk together, and the mantra of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas, and Sabka Prayas‘ can become a guiding light for all of us.”
There is no denying that almost all the countries of the G-20 and beyond have acknowledged India as a Voice of the Global South and also as a rising powerful global star. “India is keen to take every country along in the global journey of growth. This fact was vindicated by PM Modi’s massive efforts to include the 55-member African bloc in the G20 elite group.
That’s not all. PM Modi also invited 9 other countries to attend the G20 New Delhi Summit in a message that India believes in giving audience to every member of the global community. Guest members were Bangladesh, Netherlands, Nigeria, Egypt, Mauritius, Oman, Singapore, Spain, and the UAE.”
Officials at MEA are hopeful that “every global quarter would cooperate with India in its mission to achieve the “Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas” goal. The latest survey report on the global popularity of PM Modi bears testimony to the fact that the world is looking to the Indian prime minister as a powerful leader who can play a pivotal role in addressing humanitarian, territorial, economic and other challenges. Modi retained his top position as the world’s most popular leader with an approval rating of 76 per cent, says a survey by US-based consultancy firm “Morning Consult ‘’. The Global Leader Approval Rating Tracker has said that 76 per cent of people approve of PM Modi’s leadership. Union Home Minister Amit Shah shared the popular global leaders’ rating on X (formerly Twitter). “The latest Morning Consult survey shows that PM @narendramodi Ji’s popularity remains unrivalled among global leaders,” Shah wrote on X. “This is not only a testament to the success of the Modi doctrine in foreign policy but also a global recognition of Modi Ji’s undeterred achievements in lifting millions out of poverty, selfless efforts to improve their living standards and people’s unyielding trust in him,” Amit Shah added. The rating assumes significance as it has come soon after India successfully hosted the G20 summit in Delhi.
Officials say that the global community has seen how PM Modi ensured supply of medicines, food grains and other essential items from India to various countries during crises resulting from war, natural disaster or Covid-19. It was because of PM Modi that India was first to reach out to Sri Lanka to help it tide over the unprecedented economic crisis. “It was due to the intervention of Modi that several rescue operations by India could help people who were stranded in Ukraine and other embattled countries,” an official said.