Coming out in wholesome praise of Prime Minister Modi’s leadership and is outreach towards Bharat’s global partners in times of distress, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said New Delhi demonstrated to the world that it could not only look after itself but could also ‘save the world’ in times of need.
Speaking at an event at Hubli in Congress-ruled Karnataka on Wednesday, Jaishankar said at a time when the world was worried about Bharat’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the country stood up as a provider for the globe and shipped vaccines and other life-saving drugs to 100 countries.
“Bharat, which the world was worried about, gave vaccines to 100 other countries,” the EAM said at the event.
As he got up to speak, the EAM highlighted how the entire world feared that Bharat might bear the brunt of the pandemic but that did not happen.
“When the Covid pandemic arrived, the world assumed that the country that would suffer the most would be Bharat. The reason for this is that we have a huge population. People thought that we were not capable enough. We had fewer doctors. Leave alone the vaccines, even the masks were not manufactured here. There was a shortage of ventilators.”
“But under the leadership of PM Modi, Bharat showed the world that it could not only look after itself, but it could also save the world,” he added.
Also speaking highly of Bharat’s growth story, the External Affairs Minister said, “Today, Bharat is confident. It does not leave its citizens alone when they are stuck in a crisis in another country.”
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