MIRZAPUR:  Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said India is poised to emerge as a global economic power and the efforts initiated by the Narendra Modi government will start bearing positive results in the days to come.

"India will be a global economic power," he said in Mirzapur at a BJP function.

"The world has started recognising India's power. No country can avoid us and they have to keep India in their mind," Mr Singh said while highlighting India's economic importance.

Referring to the initiatives launched under the stewardship of Prime Minister Modi, he said these will start bearing "positive results" in the coming years.

At the event organised to felicitate more than a hundred veteran BJP workers who have been with the party since its Jana Sangh days, Mr Singh, a former BJP president, also exhorted the party cadre to start preparing in right earnest for the Assembly polls next year in Uttar Pradesh.

Praising Apna Dal leader and Mirzapur lawmaker Anupriya Patel, he said, "You people have chosen a very good woman who has talent, which was needed in Parliament. She is among the few parliamentarians who are good speakers."

Mr Singh said Ms Patel, however, cannot do much on her own as they are in the opposition in Uttar Pradesh and appealed to locals to back her.

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