Chandrayaan-3 Success To G20 Presidency: Tory MP Suella Braverman Hails ‘Victory Cry Of New India’ At Ideas Of India
Former UK minister and Tory MP Suella Braverman recalled her early memories of India as she toured the length and breadth of the country with her mother as a child and shared her experience when she backpacked across the nation again as an adult 30 years later — only to discover a transformed India. She lauded the country and the citizens on the various success stories from the historic landing of the Chandrayaan 3 on the moon’s south police to the successful G20 presidency.
She said, “From achieving the first landing by the Chandrayaan 3 mission on the moon’s South pole — the victory cry of a new India, the G20 presidency last year when we saw a new approach to multilateralism led by India which meant a new voice for the global South in the international discourse… on digital public infrastructure india has been decisive in her leadership — having witnessed the revolutionary impact of digital innovations of Aadhaar, UPI, DigiLocker first hand and as the world’s largest democracy with the fastest-growing economy in the world with the IMF upgrading India’s economic growth to 6.5 per cent for 2024, 2025 — figures that we look at jealously in the UK, there is a huge amount to be excited and optimistic about India’s future in the world stage.”
Suella Braverman, a firebrand parliamentarian from the Conservative party in the UK, has often been in the eye of the storm for her views, especially on the topic of immigration. The former UK minister’s policy seeking to deport immigrants to Rwanda sparked a massive discussion and elicited diverse reactions. It is at this crucial juncture when the West is rethinking its immigration policies and the conversation around porous borders is more relevant than ever, that ABP Network’s ‘Ideas Of India Summit’ sought to understand Braverman’s views in the session ‘The World in Ferment: Closing Borders, Brutal Wars’.
Braverman, a prominent figure in the Conservative Party and a legal expert began her parliamentary career in 2015 representing Fairham. Serving as attorney general for England and Wales from 2020 to 2022, she advocated for Brexit and held a junior ministerial position in the Brexit department during Theresa May’s premiership. However, she resigned from this role over her disagreement with May’s proposed Brexit deal, citing concerns about its handling of relations with the European bloc.
Braverman has her roots in India with her parents immigrating from Kenya and Mauritius in the 1960s, with her mother’s Hindu Tamil and father’s Goan origins.
Building on the success of its preceding editions themed ‘Naya India’ and ‘Open-Minds Open Minds,’ the upcoming summit pledges to maintain its tradition of fostering dialogues on the driving forces shaping India’s trajectory.
