New Delhi: India’s G-20 presidency is a unique opportunity to showcase the country’s strengths to the entire world, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday. Speaking in an all party meeting at Rashtrapati Bhavan held by the Government of India with all Chief Ministers and all political party Chiefs in India, Modi asserted that the country’s presidency of the G-20, a grouping of world’s 20 major economies, belongs to the entire nation.

According to the Ministry of External Affairs statement he said there is a global curiosity and attraction towards India today that further increases the occasion’s potential. He emphasized the importance of teamwork and sought cooperation of all leaders in the organization of various G-20 events.

PM Modi pointed out that the G-20 presidency would help showcase parts of India beyond the conventional big metros, bringing out the uniqueness of various regions of the country, statement read. Noting that a large number of visitors would be coming to India during the year-long events, PM Modi highlighted the potential for promoting tourism and boosting the local economies of the venues where G-20 meetings would be organized.

Brief interventions were made by Home Minister Amit Shah and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman while a detailed presentation encapsulating aspects of India’s G-20 priorities was also made.

BJP’s J P Nadda, Congress’s Mallikarjun Kharge, TMC’s Mamata Banerjee, BJD’s Naveen Patnaik, AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal, YSRCP’s YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, CPM’s Sitaram Yechury, TDP’s N Chandrababu Naidu and DMK’s M K Stalin, addressed the meeting, said the statement. Former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, Union ministers Rajnath Singh, S Jaishankar, Piyush Goyal, Pralhad Joshi and Bhupender Yadav also attended the meeting.