India recently entered into a spate of trade agreements, including with the European Union and the United States, “from a position of strength”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday (February 15, 2026), adding that these deals were designed to expand global market access for Indian manufacturing and services.
His remarks, made in a written interview to the Press Trust of India, comes after the first part of the Budget Session of Parliament, where the government faced an attack by the Opposition on the terms of the trade deals.
Mr. Modi defended the agreements, noting that while long negotiations by the previous Congress-led UPA government had not yielded any results, his government’s “political stability and political predictability” had restored investors’ confidence in India.
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