RSS Sah-Sarakaryavaah (joint general secretary) Dattatreya Hosabele on Wednesday, in a video conference with members of the foreign press that included Wall Street Journal, Bloomber, Agence France-Pressem Deutsche Presse-Agentur and ARD (German television), said that India would do well by evolving a swadeshi development model that is based on self-reliance while still maintaining the concept of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (the world is one).
“In this indigenous model, local resources, workforce and needs should be integrated to revive the economy by also taking into account environmental consideration.”, he said.
He added that the COVID-19 pandemic had exposed the limits of both global capitalism an global communism development models.
He also said that it was time to write “bright new chapters of the new world as one without any discrimination” and “without creating any ‘otherisation’ or ‘exclusion’.”
He mentioned that a detailed investigation into the origins of COVID-19 should take place and asked the world to come together to avoid such emergencies in the future. He called for new regimes to deal with them by involving responsible individuals, organizations and countries.