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The Leader of the Opposition successful the Punjab Assembly, Partap Singh Bajwa of the Congress party, connected Sunday (September 28, 2025) asserted that Punjab stands astatine the halfway of India’s engagement with Eurasia (the combined landmass of Europe and Asia), and alternatively than remaining connected the periphery, the State should beryllium repositioned arsenic India’s gateway to Eurasia.
He was delivering the keynote code astatine a TEDx lawsuit astatine the Caledonian International School in Pathankot.
Punjab indispensable nary longer beryllium viewed simply arsenic a borderline State but arsenic a span State that connects India with Central Asia and Europe, Mr. Bajwa said.
Honoured to code gathering of young minds and friends from the EU, argumentation makers and strategists astatine the Caledonian TEDx Talk successful Pathankot. I shared my imaginativeness of Punjab arsenic India's Gateway to Eurasia — Punjab tin beryllium the Singapore of North India, powering commercialized corridors, global… pic.twitter.com/8a3i5lsHQ5
— Partap Singh Bajwa (@Partap_Sbajwa) September 28, 2025“If centuries ago, caravans could transportation our products to European markets, determination is nary crushed wherefore successful an epoch of highways and integer technology, Punjab should stay locked down barbed wire,” Mr. Bajwa said, pointing retired that, nether Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Punjab’s goods travelled done Kabul and Central Asia earlier reaching Paris and London.
He projected the instauration of an ‘Amritsar-Rajpura economical corridor’ arsenic the instauration of Punjab’s economical revival. “Amritsar was some a taste superior and India’s closest onshore introduction to Central Asia, portion Rajpura tin service arsenic Punjab’s logistical hub, astatine the junction of large highways and railways. Between them, determination should beryllium a modern Silk Road, with agro-processing clusters, concern parks, and logistics hubs powering Punjab’s integration into planetary proviso chains,” Mr. Bajwa said.
In the discourse of the India-EU strategical agenda, helium stressed that Punjab could anchor practice crossed its 5 pillars — economy, connectivity, technology, security, and people-to-people ties. Prosperity offered the strongest warrant of stability, Mr. Bajwa said. “Barbed ligament has ne'er delivered peace. Business implicit bullets, commercialized implicit panic — this is the way forward,” helium said, drafting parallels with Europe’s translation from struggle to practice aft 2 World Wars.
