President Droupadi Murmu highlighted the Modi administration's strengths, highlighting courage, decisiveness, and stability as its defining characteristics. She emphasised that these traits have not only helped the government overcome a number of obstacles and been essential to bringing about transformative governance in the nation, but have also given the rest of the world reason to have high expectations for India.
In her maiden address to the joint sitting of the two Houses of Parliament that marked the commencement of the Budget session, Murmu listed India’s war on Covid-19 as a major achievement. “From surgical strike to a firm crackdown on terrorism, from a befitting response to every misadventure from LoC and LAC, from abrogation of Article 370 and triple talaq, my government has been recognised as a decisive one,” she said. “My government has always kept the country’s interest paramount and shown the will power to completely transform the policies and strategies when required,” she said.
The President said, "The stable and decisive government has enabled us to deal with the biggest calamity in 100 years and the situation that arose thereafter." He was specifically referring to India's fight against Covid-19 and how the nation administered over 2.2 billion doses of the Covid-19 vaccine in two years. Political instability exists everywhere in the world, and those nations are currently dealing with grave challenges. But because of the choices made by my government in the benefit of the country, India is in a lot better position than the rest of the world.
The President's address was criticised by the opposition parties, who claimed that it was only the "first chapter" of the BJP's 2024 platform and that important topics like pricing control, intergroup peace, and women's rights were "missing."
