Starting Friday, the first Indian Ideas Conclave — projected as the Davos parallel within the country — will kick-off to generate “alternative ideas on economy, governance and security”. Organised by an RSS-inclined think tank, India Foundation, it claims to set off a “cutting edge” discussions in Goa for three days attended by national and international political leaders including senior Central Ministers.
The conclave focused on discussing “Integral Human Development” will be held from December 19-21 at Hotel Park Hyatt, Goa. Planned as a retreat, the event will become an annual feature to carve its own identity with the foundation holding India Economic Forum early next year in Delhi which will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to members of the Foundation.
It has also planned, International Conference on Counter-Terrorism at Jaipur in collaboration with the Rajasthan Government February, next year. India Foundation, based in New Delhi, says the Conclave is “an exclusive, by invitation-only annual event” where eminent global leaders and renowned subject matter experts “will discuss cutting edge ideas.” The Foundation has been, for some time, generating content on critical areas like security, diplomacy, terrorism, and economic order for the BJP Government to get ideas from and set new perspective of development.
The Conclave will comprise of 350 select invitees consisting of Global CEOs, leading scientists, technologists, leading politicians and entertainment and media executives. Among the BJP bigwigs, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, Minister of state for commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman and power Minister Piyush Goyal will attend the meet.
Besides, former Prime Ministers of Slovenia, Jordan, Netherlands and former heads of lithuania and Belgium would also be participating in the discussions. Member House of lords Meghnad Desai, Convenor, Hindu Dharma Acharya Sabha, India, Swami Dayanand Saraswati, Ambassador of Sri lanaka to Washington Prasad Kariyiyawasam and Former Director General , UNIDO, Argentina, Carlos Magarinos will be the other participants.
Former CAG Vinod Rai, and RSS leader Dattatreya Hosabale may also attend the retreat. India Foundation, which has former RSS leader and now BJP general secretary Ram Madhav, and Shaurya Doval, son of national security advisor Ajit Doval, as directors. “A free flow of intellectual discussion on economics and governance may inspire a paradigm shift in terms of ideas which in the past apparently were held hostage by intellectuals on the other side of spectrum,” said one of the key members.