Congress's Bharat Summit to host experts from 70 countries on November 13-14
Congress's Bharat Summit to host experts from 70 countries on November 13-14
M.U.H
10/11/202611
The Congress will bring together experts from 70 countries to discuss the emerging global order, India’s strategic response, cooperative federalism and electoral integrity, news agency Press Trust of India reported.
The Bharat Summit, to be held in Hyderabad on November 13 and 14, is expected to draw around 1,000 delegates, including global policymakers, progressive leaders and senior Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge. The event will also focus on establishing a think tank called "Our World".
Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid, who heads the party’s Foreign Affairs department, told PTI that discussions would focus on Gandhi’s "political vision", changing national and international political conditions, the emergence of a new global order and India’s strategic response.
"The intention is to reflect the vision of Rahul Gandhi for India and the world of tomorrow, and the emergence of a new global order. We will have 12 international sessions and eight important sessions focused on Telangana," Khurshid told reporters.
Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid, who heads the party’s Foreign Affairs department, told PTI that discussions would focus on Gandhi’s "political vision", changing national and international political conditions, the emergence of a new global order and India’s strategic response.
"The intention is to reflect the vision of Rahul Gandhi for India and the world of tomorrow, and the emergence of a new global order. We will have 12 international sessions and eight important sessions focused on Telangana," Khurshid told reporters.
Khurshid said Gandhi "will set out his vision for India and the world, and reflect on a substantive alternative foreign policy vision from India, built on principled multilateralism, strategic autonomy, peaceful coexistence and democratic values, and drawing on the legacy of Afro-Asian solidarity and the Non-Aligned Movement".
The event will also seek to establish a Global South–Global North platform and new Global South institutions. Senior policymakers and party leaders from more than 50 countries will take part in these discussions.
Telangana IT Minister Sridhar Babu said the deliberations involving hundreds of international delegates would benefit the state’s governance and people.
"The Summit will address geopolitical matters, the new world order, societal challenges, climate change, the role of the media, international journalism and information integrity," Babu told reporters, according to PTI.
"We will also host eight sessions on Telangana Rising. These sessions will cover topics such as Future City and urbanisation, economic justice, social justice, welfare policies, cooperative federalism, culture and society, youth and sports, and electoral integrity in Telangana and across India," he said.
Babu said the state would also host the Invest Telangana Global Summit 2026 from December 7 to 9. Partners attending the Bharat Summit will discuss potential investments and be invited to the investment summit, he added.
Congress leader Gurdeep Sappal said the summit was being organised at a time when divisive politics was prevalent in India and across the world. He said it aimed to bring politics back to the people.
"With IT companies now driving politics, it has to return to people’s issues driven by politicians," Sappal said. "The aim is to bring people out of the current era of propaganda and bring people’s issues and politics back in focus," he added, saying experts would discuss progressive politics.
Telangana PCC president Mahesh Goud said it would be one of the biggest events held in the state, with progressive thinkers from nearly 70 countries expected to participate.
The Congress said the summit would bring together leading policymakers, thinkers, business leaders, activists and changemakers for high-level panel discussions, closed-door roundtables and bilateral meetings.
The party said the gathering would examine changes across the world. It described the summit as the first major international meeting of progressive leaders after what it called landmark progressive electoral victories in Brazil, Hungary and Serbia, and immediately after the US midterm elections.
Overall, the two-day summit will focus on global political changes, Gandhi’s vision for India’s foreign policy, governance and social issues, while also working towards a joint statement, new international platforms and the proposed "Our World" think tank.
