CM Samrat Choudhary shares Modi's 'Power to Empower' vision at NDTV World Summit
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Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary amplified a defining foreign-policy statement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, October 22, 2026 — quoting the PM's address at the NDTV World Summit 2026 to argue that a stronger India is, by its very nature, a gift to the world.
Sharing the PM's words verbatim, CM Choudhary posted: 'Bharat ka mool mantra hai Power to Empower!' — 'India's core principle is Power to Empower!' The full quote makes a sweeping claim: that India's policies and decisions are driven by centuries of civilisational experience, making the country 'a guarantee of stability and an assurance of continuity.'
The 'Power to Empower' doctrine explained
The phrase is more than a slogan. It reframes India's rise not as a challenge to the existing world order but as an asset to it — a deliberate contrast to the zero-sum framing that often dominates great-power discourse. Prime Minister Modi has consistently woven this thread through multilateral addresses, positioning India's civilisational continuity as a stabilising force in an era of geopolitical turbulence.
The argument rests on a specific logic: that India's foreign-policy instincts are not reactive or ideological but are rooted in values tested across millennia. Stability. Continuity. Shared benefit. It is the same framework the PM deployed in his 2022 Independence Day address from the Red Fort, when he first formally outlined the Viksit Bharat@2047 roadmap — the national vision to transform India into a fully developed economy by the centenary of its independence.
Viksit Bharat as a global promise, not just a domestic goal
What is notable in this iteration of the vision is the outward-facing framing. Viksit Bharat — Developed India — is typically discussed in domestic terms: manufacturing capacity, infrastructure, per-capita income. Here, the PM presents it as a global commitment. The stronger India becomes, the quote argues, the more humanity benefits. It is a deliberate bid to cast India's development agenda as a public good for the international community, not merely a national project.
The NDTV World Summit, an annual forum that brings together global leaders and policymakers to debate India's role in world affairs, provides exactly the stage for such a message — an audience already primed to ask what an ascending India means for the rest of the world.
If India's 2047 ambition lands on schedule, the answer, this government insists, will be: a great deal of good.