Opposition leaders just banking on their group name I-N-D-I-A: Rajnath Singh

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday took a dig at the INDIA alliance and said the opposition leaders are just banking on the name of their grouping as it was the only refuge left to themHe also cited a Hindi proverb naam bade aur darshan chhote big name with little substance to describe the opposition blocThe twoday meeting of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance INDIA began in Mumbai on Thursday During the meeting deliberations on the strategy and roadmap to take on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections are expected to take placeSingh also said that India has become powerful now and nobody considers it a weak nation anymore globallyINDIAs stature globally has increased substantially as compared to what it was in the past and the world listens attentively to what it speaks which was not the case earlier he saidSingh was speaking at an event held on the birth anniversary of Dr Vitthalrao Vikhe Patil the pioneer of the cooperative movement at Pravaranagar in Ahmednagar district of MaharashtraHe said the opposition has formed a new grouping called INDIA allianceIt is a gazab strange nameINDIA I think their meeting is going on today But as everyone knows it is nothing but naam bade aur darshan chhote For these people name is the only refuge left They want to wade through a river using this name he saidBut by just using this name the river cannot be crossedA vortex cannot be crossed by using the name alone for that one needs karma Singh saidHe said the INDIA of the past is not the same any moreOur INDIA is not the same that it used to be in the past when leaders from the country would go to various global platforms and speak but the world never used to listen to them seriously Other countries used to think it is INDIA a weak nation and why should we listen he saidBut today INDIAs stature in the world has increased so much that when it speaks at the international platform the world listens attentively the Union minister addedWhen the RussiaUkraine war began several INDIAn students were stranded in Ukraine he saidThe concerned parents of the students appealed to Modi ji for their evacuation PM Modi dialled Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin And see the charisma the war stopped for fourandahalf hours and our students were evacuated As many as 23000 students were brought back he saidBut the opposition does not like this he saidIt is because of the kind of credibility and prowess that INDIA has established in the worldWhen we speak the entire world listens Nobody considers INDIA a weak nation anymore I would like to say that INDIA is no longer a weak nation it has become a powerful nationThere is no situation now wherein someone can intimidate us But we are a peaceloving country which gives a message of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam the world is one family Singh saidOn the occasion he lauded the contribution of Vitthalrao Vikhe Patil and said that the cooperative movement was led by him in Maharashtra as a result of which the cooperative sector not only thrived in Maharashtra but spread across INDIAThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever