“Modi at 25: Destiny’s Man Shaping Bharat’s Rise and Securing Unmatched Foreign Policy Legacy”, Firstpost, 08 Oct 2026.
“Since taking over as chief minister of Gujarat on October 7, 2001, Narendra Modi has completed a quarter of a century in public service as head of government. We should probably pause a little and reflect on it. The enormity of the occasion is easy to miss in these strange times when even a one-minute video is way too long for our attention span.
Incredibly, despite being in power for 25 years, the prime minister is not complacent. He is still restless for more objectives to achieve, driven by a sense of duty and responsibility that helps him avoid the trappings of power. “We will do it,” he asserted on Wednesday at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi while addressing the ‘Viksit Bharat Sankalp Sabha’, urging citizens to strive harder to attain India’s development goals by 2047.
In the cut and thrust of domestic politics, where a frustrated Opposition is taking an anarchic turn to grab through street veto what it seemingly can’t through an electoral mandate, it is important to look at Modi’s tenure at the helm from a distance. That lens is provided by foreign dignitaries and leaders who are watching India’s rise in real time, led by a generational mass leader.
“India became so important on the world stage because of Modi,” said former Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić in a recent podcast. Modi has “raised India to the heavens” and turned it into a force on the global stage, said Vučić, who stepped down as Serbian president last month to run in the parliamentary elections…………”
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