00:00NorthEast Students Festival.
00:02Coming to this NEST Fest, I consider myself very fortunate.
00:09The way in which the art and culture of our northeastern states
00:17is being projected on the world map like a map,
00:23My Home India is doing this.
00:25I don't just want to congratulate them, but I also want to thank them.
00:30By bringing together the states from all corners of our country,
00:36from Maharashtra to Arunachal Pradesh,
00:40they have taken India's ideology and policy forward.
00:45I thank them from the bottom of my heart.
00:48It is very important, and I believe that India not only has economic power,
00:53but also has a spiritual power.
00:58Today, India has risen to the top of the world map
01:02as the 5th largest economic power.
01:04By 2030, India will be the 3rd largest economic power.
01:09But India's spiritual power, India's soft power,
01:13has risen to the top of the world map like a map.
01:19I believe that all our cultural festivals,
01:24our culture, our dance, our songs,
01:29we have to take them to the world map.
01:32We are organizing a cultural festival on the basis of Ashtalakshmi
01:36in December in Delhi,
01:39where all the eight states of the northeastern states
01:42will perform, dance, and sing.
01:48We are going to organize an Ashtalakshmi
01:52in Delhi by bringing together all three,
01:55including handicrafts and handloom.
