India ended three decades of political instability by pressing a button, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed members of the Indian community at the Theater at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany on Monday.

Modi arrived in Berlin on the first leg of his three-nation Europe trip that will also take him to Denmark and France.

Delighted to interact with the Indian community in Berlin. https://t.co/alspwulUS4

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 2, 2022

After the prime minister arrived at the venue he tried his hands at playing a drum.

#WATCH | Germany: Prime Minister Narendra Modi tried his hands on a drum, as he arrived at Theater at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin to address members of the Indian community. pic.twitter.com/VsH0TLK6F6

— ANI (@ANI) May 2, 2022

Modi began his address by stating that he is in the German capital to neither talk about himself nor the Modi government.

"I want to talk to you about the capabilities of crores of Indians and sing their praises. When I speak about crores of Indians, it includes not only the people who live there but also those who live here," he said.

The prime minister said his words include all the children of Maa Bharati who live in every corner of the world. "The people of India ended the politically unstable atmosphere of the last three decades by pressing a button. After 30 years a full majority government was elected in 2014 and the people of India made the government stronger in 2019," he said.

"We are celebrating 75 years of independence this year. I am the first prime minister who was born in independent India. The peak on which India would be at the time it celebrates 100 years of independence, India is strongly taking step after step and walking swiftly toward that goal," he added.

Modi said through reforms his government is transforming the country. "For reform, political will is needed. Today India is moving forward in all fields including quality of life, quality of education and others. The country, bureaucracy, government offices are same but now we are getting better results," he said.

He added "we ended 25,000 compliances and 1,500 laws to make doing business in India easy."

When the world faces a problem, India brings forward solutions, like the world is facing a crisis regarding wheat production. The Indian farmers have come forward to help, the prime minister said.

The new India does not think of a secure future alone. It takes risks, it innovates, it incubates, he said adding, "I remember that around 2014, our country had only 200-400 startups. Today, the country has more than 68,000 startups."

Today, all global parameters say that several dozens of these startups have become unicorns. It's not restricted to unicorns alone, today India can proudly say that numerous unicorns are becoming decacons too. It means they are crossing the level of USD 10 billion, Modi said.

Continuing on the progress of the country, Modi said, "today, they are not chaining down the innovators, the country is pushing them forward by pumping vigour in them. If you want to innovate in geospatial area, or build new kinds of drones or rockets or satellites - today India offers the most open and nurturing environment for this."

The price of internet data is so low in India that it is unbelievable for many nations. Last year, India's share was 40 per cent in real-time global digital payments. "Now no PM will have to say that I send Rs 1 from Delhi but only 15 paise reaches", the prime minister said.

Earlier there was one nation but two constitutions. It took seven decades to implement one nation and one constitution. It has been implemented only now, the prime minister said. 

The elated audience then chanted "2024 - Modi Once More"

Twenty Twenty Four - Modi Once More - Indian Diaspora in Berlin. pic.twitter.com/sdomEBv5zW

— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) May 2, 2022

Earlier, the PMO's twitter handle shared a video of the audience with the caption, "Every Indian, no matter where he or she is, always has an emotional connect with Vande Mataram":

Every Indian, no matter where he or she is, always has an emotional connect with Vande Mataram. pic.twitter.com/977BbAey2U

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) May 2, 2022

This address to the Indian community was given shortly after the 6th India-Germany Inter-Governmental Consultations which were co-chaired by Modi and Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

He also held a bilateral meeting with Chancellor Scholz. This was their first engagement since Chancellor Scholz assumed office in December 2021. Discussions covered key areas of bilateral cooperation under the overall strategic partnership, as well as regional and global developments.

With input from agencies

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With PM Modi all set to visit Berlin, time is ripe to reset India-Germany partnership

The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Berlin for the inter-governmental consultations (IGC) is an opportune time. It is in the midst of the Ukraine crisis. That led to several crises within Europe and Germany itself. Therefore, the Indo-German re-engagement calls for a determined reset using the opportunities offered by these crises.

The biannual consultations were delayed due to government changes in Germany which will now make them more meaningful. The probability of a further delay due to the Ukraine crisis was stymied with Germany reaching out to India to have the IGC within the first six months of its term.

India’s European policy has Germany as an important node, more for economic and technological reasons than a traditional strategic partnership, which France leads. The German Indo-Pacific policy guidelines enunciated in 2021 were a new willingness to engage with India and our region, though it lacked disengagement from China.

The Ukraine crisis brought new problems to the world, already reeling under the stress of the pandemic. Since the pandemic and the Ukraine crisis are two important fulcrums around which current international reordering is underway, this is a good opportunity to rethink the Indo-German strategic heft and look for commonalities.

India and Germany could have a serious conversation about how the engagement with Russia for both has been important but is jeopardised by recent Russian action which breaches international rules. It is in the interest of India and Germany to maintain the international rules-based order and thus Russia must be called out. However, the manner of criticising Russia will not be suitable if Russia is rusticated from international fora, as done in the Human Rights Council and is being attempted at the G20. Russia will remain an important power and its energy resources and power elements will not diminish.

How to engage with Russia, keep up a dialogue and bring it into greater responsibility is a mutual objective for India and Germany, which they have rarely coordinated. This may be the opportune time emanating from the Ukraine crisis to nudge a conversation around this.

The re-engagement with Germany should also discuss China. Germany’s economic engagement with China was at the core of Germany's economic success over the last decade. The Greens and the FDP partners in the coalition are not as well-disposed to China, as the CDU was. They would like to hold China responsible for its transgressions on democratic values, and like the EU, term it a ‘systemic rival’. Incremental loosening of the relationship with China is likely to happen in Germany.

This will be a good time to share India’s view of China, which Germany needs to take seriously if its Indo-Pacific guidelines are to be meaningful. These show good intentions, but suffer diversion due to the Ukraine crisis. Germany seems to lack the resources, both human and financial, to undertake the disengagement with Russia and a robust Indo-Pacific policy at the same time. It is in India’s interest to recognise this, but nevertheless encourage Germany to gradually increase its partnership with the Indo-Pacific while placing limitations on its Chinese engagement.

The expansion of trade and value chains out of Indian manufacturing hubs is linked to the nature of German business interests in India. These are largely green and small; they need to expand into larger green infrastructure projects. Several metros are financed by Germany, in Nagpur, Pune and Mumbai.

Germany should look at enhancing its interest in high-speed railways for which the feasibility study for the Chennai-Mysuru HSR corridor is complete, but not on track. This is the problem with several German-led projects. Their gestation period becomes long because of inadequate mutual understanding of systems and procedures. Germany has had a hybrid funding system since 2016. It is used to fund the Mumbai metro. It has a development loan and a promotional loan at varied rates of interest. This needs to be brought to the HSR because it appears that while German technology is acceptable to India, their financing scheme is less clearly understood.

The EU-India connectivity partnership mentioned railways as a core area. To realise that, Germany should take the lead for the HSR and work with other partners like France and Spain who have shown similar interest, along with their financing institutions and that of the European Investment Bank.

The important high technology partnership group needs reinvigoration. This group between 2013 and 2016 brought forth several new areas of collaboration by identifying metros, solar energy, green transmission lines and HSR. However, since 2017, the highly regarded HTPG seems to be dormant. It would be good to have this HTPG reconstituted, parallel to the India EU Trade and Technology Council.

Similarly, the track 1.5 Indo-German Consultative Group, which received high praise in earlier IGCs, is dormant. Germany is essentially a civil society-based country and functions as such, rather than as a cohesive whole. Dealing with it outside government channels is a good objective.

Reaching out to the powerful German Landers (states) is where India would do well to enhance cooperative ventures with Germany. So far, only Maharashtra and Karnataka are linked to Baden Wurttemberg and Bavaria. This attribute could be expanded.

Since both India and Germany are deeply committed to the climate agenda and the implementation of the SDGs, this is a good time for them to work together not only in India but beyond. An Indo-German trilateral approach for promoting the SDGs in other parts of Asia and Africa would be a progressive way for the partnership to become more visible in the Global South. This can begin with implementing SDG projects through training in renewable energy, skill development, women’s emancipation and education. India has a great reach and accessibility in Africa, and India and Germany working together could attain many of their mutual objectives in a much larger number of countries.

India and Germany have a contoured partnership, much of which is guided by EU principles and priorities. With the India-EU partnership on even keel, now is the time to go beyond that and build on Indian and German priorities bilaterally, which neither look at Brussels nor Washington for priority setting.

The writer is a former Ambassador to Germany. Views expressed are personal.

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