PM MODI'S LEADERSHIP HAS HELPED GLOBAL ASCENDANCY OF INDIA IN MYRIAD WAYS

In the contemporary geopolitically fractious world, PM Modi has managed to elicit extraordinary support from the major global power players while deftly courting India's biggest adversaries.

- R. P. TIWARI

PM Modi has transformed India's image globally in myriads ways. Though foreign policy has rarely been a part of India's electoral discourse, PM Modi, during campaign for the recent parliamentary elections, promised to position India as a world leader.

In spite of the multifarious challenges on the domestic and international fronts, PM Modi has emerged as a leader of global stature with the potential to address serious global issues, especially conflicts, and has worked tirelessly to ameliorate the condition of the marginalized by virtue of visionary, bold, and unabated leadership. In fact, PM Modi has raised the profile of India as a companion of preference, a voice of reason and a global consensus builder.

Undoubtedly, he is abundantly endowed with the Kautilya's six attributes of a ruler for perfection of diplomacy, namely, superior intelligence, sharp memory, refinement of speech, knowledge of politics, morality and readiness to provide resources.

When PM Modi took over the reins of India in 2014, it was presumed that foreign policy would be his weakest suit in governance. Contrarily, last decade has witnessed confidence building with the prominent global powers.

PM Modi has shown great diplomacy in dealing with all three US Presidents of his time resulting into improved appreciation of each other's worldviews. This relationship has led to consequential steps for promoting global relationship for India in strategic, economic, commercial and technological spheres. India and US have mutually engaged on sixty dialogues, including ultramodern emergent technologies, education, health, agriculture, green hydrogen, defense, and software & hardware development. On invitation from US President Joe Biden in June 2023, PM Modi got the rare opportunity to address the Joint Session of the US Congress for the second time.