TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Technology firms should contribute to preserving democratic societies as technology has the ability to impact democracy “positively or negatively”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday at a virtual summit hosted by US President Joe Biden.
Biden hosted the summit for democracy and representatives from over a hundred countries are attending it. In his address, Modi also outlined sensitivity, accountability, participation and reform orientation as four pillars of Indian democratic governance, sources said.
He also stressed that principles of democracy should also guide global governance and highlighted India’s civilisational ethos as one of the original sources of democracy, they said. The prime minister said that the democratic spirit, including respect for rule of law and pluralistic ethos, is ingrained in Indians, the sources said.
The Indian diaspora carries it too, thereby contributing to the economic well-being and social harmony of their adopted homes, they said. In his remarks, Modi recalled that exactly on this date 75 years ago, India’s Constituent Assembly had held its first session. The prime minister emphasised the need for democratic countries to deliver on values enshrined in their constitutions, the sources said.
