Monday, April 20, 2009

Legacy of Nehru

Recently Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the only achievement of Advani in his political life, is the Babri masjid demolition. He is in election campaign so he is pointing out negatives of his opponent. Let us do the same thing with the Nehru, the first Prime minister of India. What is the achievement of Nehru. The humiliation of 1962 or tilting Indian policy towards communism or creator of dynastic politics in India.
Advani may not be fully responsible for Babri masjid demolition but Nehru is the only reason of 1962 defeat of India at the hands of China. He adopted a "No defense against China" policy. Because China was good friend of Him. He gave the Permanent seat at the UN security council to China. He did not allocate enough budget for preparing the army for any possible threat against China. Many world leaders at that time warned Nehru that China is planning attack on India. And when finally China attacked the whole world laughed at India. That is why it was not just a defeat at war for India but a humiliation.
Now the second achievement. What is wrong in having your policies tilted towards communism. The very simple answer is communism breeds dictatorship and corruption. We just need to see around the world and at communist states and it becomes quite obvious. See USSR, China, Cuba, Venezuela etc. As India was not absolute communist state , so there was no absolute dictatorship also. But there was Some amount of dictatorship during the times of Indira Gandhi. And corruption is there for everyone to see. This tilt has caused a huge loss to India in terms of foreign policy. Because of our "Non-Aligned Movement" most of the capitalistic world powers see India skeptically. We have lost the benefits of good relations with world powers.
The third achievement of Nehru the dynastic politics. It is being followed by the leaders in this country in almost all the states. We have leaders and then we have their wives, their sons their daughters. If you are not in the family then you have a very little scope of growing in politics.

With so many achievements in the name of Nehru, I think Advani is better than Nehru.

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