West Should Listen to Putin And Abandon One-Size-Fits-All Model: BJP Politician

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President Putin’s address at the 31st Annual Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi was historic and reflective of the “spirit of the age,” Dr. Anirban Ganguly, a member of the BJP National Executive, told Sputnik India.

The Western countries should listen to President Vladimir Putin’s advice and immediately abandon their “one-size-fits-all approach” to promote global peace and harmony, said Dr. Ganguly, who is also the Chairman of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation .

“President Putin’s statesman-like outreach to the West, his philosophical understanding of its challenges, problems and mindset, his leader-like formulation of the new global order and the need to understand its needs and some of the hard truths he conveyed, must attract the attention of thinking minds across the world. Especially those engaged with the new (global) order that is seeking to take shape,” said Dr. Ganguly.

Dr. Ganguly especially appreciated Putin’s understanding of “eastern philosophies”, which, he emphasised, promoted an “everyone wins model” as compared to the zero-sum approach of the West.

“Among the many striking and thought-provoking remarks and arguments that President Putin made, was one that was particularly striking. Speaking of the Eastern philosophies, he argued that these always encouraged a ‘searching for the harmony of interests’ as opposed to a conflict of interests,” he stated.

Dr. Ganguly said that there was a need to “recognise that there could be many models, many views, many frameworks with each having a legitimate right to be heard and to be given a chance”.

“Putin said that there was a need to articulate Russia’s stand on the new global architecture and that development took place on the basis of sovereign equality for all countries, and that artificial political barriers had to be removed for development. President Putin was essentially indicating that the age of the model-framework-order-monopoly was irreversibly on its way out,” the BJP functionary noted.

Ganguly described the Russian President as a “global leader” for reiterating that Moscow didn’t consider the West as an “enemy”. He noted that Putin once again called for “collective addressing” of common challenges facing humanity such as social inequality, demography, food insecurity and climate change among others.

The transition towards a “polycentric” world was irreversible, Dr. Ganguly backed Putin’s assertion, adding that “It will be a multi-centered world in which previously sidelined nations will play a bigger role.”

Significantly, Dr. Ganguly drew similarities between Putin’s appeal for a multipolar world and widespread affirmation for a multipolar global order in Indian strategic and government circles.

Quoting one of India’s leading public intellectuals S Gurumurthy, Dr. Ganguly said that the “one-size-fits-all model thus was an agenda to destroy traditional societies and turn them into market societies.

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