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Unlike previous govts, we do reforms with conviction: PM
Financial Express Mumbai
|October 18, 2025
PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA Modi on Friday asserted that while earlier governments carried out reforms as compulsion his dispensation does it with conviction and has turned every risk into reform.
Addressing the NDTV World Summit in New Delhi, Modi said that India now does not remain silent after terror attacks but hits back using surgical and air strikes.
"Earlier governments carried out reforms as compulsion, we now do it with conviction. Age of unknown can be uncertain thing for world but it is opportunity for India as it has always turned risks into reforms," he told the gathering.
"We have turned every reform into resilience and every resilience into a revolution," the PM added.
This story is from the October 18, 2025 edition of Financial Express Mumbai.
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