PM Narendra Modi Inducts India's Largest Indigenously Built Warship INS Kolkata

MUMBAI: Inducting the country's largest indigenously built warship, INS Kolkata, into the Indian Navy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the defence forces will be modernised to ensure that "no one can dare challenge us".

Dedicating the first of the Kolkata Class guided missile destroyers to the nation, he said military might was the biggest deterrent to war.

"Fighting a war and winning it has now become less difficult these days. But a modern military, armed with state of the art weaponry alone is a guarantee against war. When we are capable, no one can dare challenge us," Modi said addressing naval officers and sailors at the Naval Dockyard here after commissioning the warship.

"When people have a sense of our military capability, nobody will ever dare to cast an evil eye on our nation," he said, describing INS Kolkata as proof of India's intellectual prowess.

Stressing the importance of maritime security in fast expanding global trade and commerce, the Prime Minister said India, with its vast coastline, was playing a major role in it.

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