India is role model to the world in human rights: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar
Vice-President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar today highlighted the affirmative changes taking place in Bharat, home to 1/6th of humanity, in the advancement of human rights, asserting its position as a ‘Role Model’ for the world. “No part of the globe is so blossoming, prospering with human rights as our country is doing”, he noted.
New Delhi: Vice-President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar today highlighted the affirmative changes taking place in Bharat, home to 1/6th of humanity, in the advancement of human rights, asserting its position as a ‘Role Model’ for the world. “No part of the globe is so blossoming, prospering with human rights as our country is doing”, he noted.
Delivering the keynote address at the Human Rights Day celebrations at Bharat Mandapam today, the Vice-President underlined, “our Amrit-Kaal has become our Gaurav-Kaal primarily due to the blossoming of human rights and values.”
He further observed that “our civilizational ethoes and constitutional commitment reflect our deep dedication to respecting, safeguarding, and nurturing human rights which is in our DNA”. Highlighting further, he emphasized, “Bharat serves as an example to the world in nurturing, promoting, and flourishing human rights.”
Calling that nurturing of human rights as a ‘cornerstone to democracy’; the Vice-President stressed that “Equality before law is an inalienable facet of promoting human right”. He also appreciated the convergence of all the three organs of the state, namely the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary for the fostering of human rights as the “Respect for human rights is embedded in our civilizational ethos & constitution”, he added.
Talking about the recent upsurge in the politics of freebies, the Vice-President cautioned that this will lead to distorting of expenditure priority and shall undermine of basic framework of macroeconomic stability as “empowerment of pocket through fiscal grants only increases dependence”, he urged for empowerment of human minds & human resources and not pockets.
Highlighting that India has been treated unfairly by some global entities, VP asked them to delve deep into the nation’s performance on human rights and not merely scratch the surface. He wanted such entities to take note of “India’s governance model that is free from corruption, favouritism, nepotism. It’s dictated by transparency, accountability and merit.”
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