Ahmedabad:
Defense Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that talks between India and China are proceeding smoothly and in a good environment and India will never bow down.
Singh, who is campaigning in Ahmedabad for BJP candidates contesting the Lok Sabha elections, said India has become a powerful country from a military point of view and wants to maintain good relations with its neighbors.
“India is no longer a weak India. India has also become a powerful country from a military point of view. We want to maintain good relations with our neighbors,” the minister said when asked about Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's accusation against Narendra Modi. government on Chinese aggression.
The talks between India and China are proceeding smoothly and in a good environment on whatever issues arise, he said.
“I understand that we have to wait for the outcome of the talks. But I want to assure the countrymen that India has not bowed to anything and will never bow down,” he said.
Singh also expressed confidence that India's defense exports, which crossed the Rs 21,000 crore mark in the 2023-2024 financial period, will increase in the future.
“In 2014, we exported Rs 600 crore defense items, but now the figure has crossed Rs 21,000 crore, and I can say this is going to increase,” he said.
The minister said the Modi government is committed to ensuring that defense items, whether missiles and other weapons, bombs or tanks, should be made in India and by Indians.
“Today we have achieved defense production worth over Rs 1 lakh crore,” he said.
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