PM to lay down ‘Modi Doctrine’ at Second Raisina Hill dialogues

Styled on the Shangri La Dialogue held annually in Singapore, the theme of the Raisina Hill Dialogues this time is ‘New Normal: Multilateralism and Multipolarity’.

Updated on: Jan 12, 2017, 24:17:42 IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Shishir Gupta

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay down the “Modi Doctrine” on Indian foreign policy as he inaugurates the Second Raisina Hill dialogues on January 17 with UK foreign minister Boris Johnson, Nepalese foreign minister Prakash Sharan Mahat, and a host of politicians and military leaders brainstorming in the Capital.

PM Modi is likely to speak at the Second Raisina Hill dialogue. (PTI File Photo)

The Raisina Hill dialogues will have participation of over 250 people from 65 nations and will end on January 19.

Top government sources told Hindustan Times that PM Modi apparently sent his confirmation to speak at the dialogue on Wednesday, with his speech expected to focus on economic integration of the neighbourhood as well as increasing the pan-Asian transport connectivity as part of the Act Asia policy. The dialogue will be attended by Sri Lankan military leader-turned-politician Sarath Fonseka, US Pacific Commander Admiral Harry B Harris, former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai, former prime minister of Canada Stephen Harper, and former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd. Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and power minister Piyush Goyal will also address the gathering along with a host of diplomatic advisers and counter-terror experts.

Styled on the Shangri La Dialogue held annually in Singapore, the theme of the Raisina Hill Dialogues this time is ‘New Normal: Multilateralism and Multipolarity’. The dialogue will begin with foreign secretary S Jaishankar making a presentation on Indian foreign policy and an assessment of the future global trends. India is also planning to start an India-US leadership Forum from next summer where diplomatic and military leaders from both sides can discuss issues of mutual importance.

While the work on PM Modi’s speech has just begun, the Indian leader will focus on the threat of global terror particularly emanating for the neighbourhood and the Islamic State, growing radicalisation as well as reiterate the freedom of navigation on high seas in both Asia and Pacific.

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Shishir Gupta
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.Read More

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