Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said politics should be confined to elections, adding that India had enormous challenges but development should be the only focus,
Speaking at the 15th edition of the Indian School of Business leadership Summit 2017 here, the Vice President underlined the importance of collectively rooting out corruption, communalism, casteism, fundamentalism, criminalisation of politics, gender discrimination and atrocities on women and weaker sections.
“We have to tap into our inner strengths and with a collective will and tireless striving as Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore said we must build a new India.
“We need to keep adding new chapters to Indias fascinating growth story. All of us should be the co-authors of this evolving document,” he said.
The VP said as a nation, one needed to focus on development. “The challenges are enormous. The agenda has to be development, development, development through good governance and not controversies. We are a free nation now, we are independent, we do not have any foreign rulers now, we are ruling ourselves...politics should be confined to elections, once the elections are over everybody should focus on development.
“States must compete with each other, and then the Centre and States must work together like Team India,” he said.
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a call of Reform, Perform and Transform,” he said, while pointing out that innovation was the need of the hour. Quoting the World Bank, the vice president said the country remains a favourite destination among global investors.