G20 Summit 2023 LIVE: Credit to govt for taking the message of G-20 to people

One of the things that was remarkable about the government's conduct of the presidency was that they did something that no previous G-20 presidency has done. They actually made it a huge nationwide event. 200 meetings in 58 cities, a huge amount of action, and the conversion of the G-20 into a sort of people's G-20 with public events... civil society and think tank meetings all of these things were unprecedented. No other country has done anything like that. And that is, in some ways, both a credit to India for taking the message of the G-20 to the entire people. But it's also an attempt by the ruling party to instrumentalize the G-20 as something that would turn out to be an asset for them politically... India has hosted many summits. Never has the ruling party celebrated its leadership in such a way.

Several world leaders at the G20 Summit here congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the success of Chandrayaan-3, with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva hailing India for achieving the feat "in a budget less than that of the movie Interstellar", according to sources. "I congratulate you on the Moon landing. But as an economist let me congratulate you for doing it in a budget less than that of the movie, 'Interstellar'. Bravo!" International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Georgieva was quoted by a source as saying at a meeting during the G20.