The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.

India's saving rate will go up. India's investment rate will go up. And I believe that's a plus point.

I do believe that India is a unique case. And you need I think exceptional skills I think to incorporate Indian into the world nuclear order.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

I have always regard nonalignment as a statement that India's policies, foreign policy will be guided by what I describe as enlightened national interest. That we will make judgments on an independent basis, with the sole concern being what is enlightened India's national interest. In that sense, nonalignment remains as relevant today as it was in the early 1950s.

I am convinced the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indian people, if allowed to express itself freely in the marketplace, India will be all right.

The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.