The Vice-President of India, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar today said that Northeast is streaming fast into national life, now with 17 airports, 20 waterways, and deep digital penetration. The region’s organic and natural farming offers a model for other states, and its indigenous resources like bamboo, rubber, and silk present enormous market opportunities, lauding the state’s progress and its contributions to India’s unity and prosperity.
Addressing the Special Session of the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly today, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar said, the Act East Policy,has elevated the Look East Policy to a functional and transformative level. He remarked, The Honourable Prime Minister took the vision of Look East to the next level, a more functional level that could affect ground realities and be transformative, and that was Act East policy.
Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar said, our political parties must understand that ultimately the interest of all converges in nation prospering and nationalism blossoming. We cannot, under any situation, keep any interest above our national interest. Nation is first, unity of the nation is first.
On India’s democratic ethos, the Vice-President expressed his concern about disruptions in legislative functioning, saying, We cannot afford this kind of spectacle in a country that is the mother of democracy, the largest democracy. How can we go against the spirit of the Constitution? How can we afford to walk out of our obligations? he said.
