New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that India has recognized its inherent strength in the last 12 years and because of this growing confidence, developed countries are also coming forward for trade agreements. Addressing a private channel programme, Modi said that even after independence, some people retained the colonial mentality for their own benefit.
“If we had not recognized our inherent strengths and strengthened our institutions, no country would have entered into trade agreements with us,” he said. That is why developed countries have come forward to enter into trade agreements with India.” The Prime Minister said that capability in any country does not come suddenly but is built over generations, and is enhanced by knowledge, tradition, hard work and experience.
Modi said that over a long period of history, centuries of slavery had instilled a sense of inferiority about the country’s potential, and ideology imported from other countries had deeply ingrained in society the notion that Indians were uneducated and subservient.
He said, “If the country was still mired in the despair of the pre-2014 era, counted among the ‘weak five’ countries and suffering from policy deadlock, who would have entered into a trade deal with us?” Modi said, “In the last 11 years, a new flow of energy has flowed into the consciousness of the country. India is now trying to regain its lost potential.
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