Nehru and LAC: Thread
Nehruvian style of politics wreaked havoc with India's integrity, compromised on geo-strategic vantage, & left no stone unturned in downgrading India's position globally for decades to come.
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Nehruvian style of politics wreaked havoc with India's integrity, compromised on geo-strategic vantage, & left no stone unturned in downgrading India's position globally for decades to come.
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In October 1950, Mao's troops marched into Tibet; Lhasa appealed to the United Nations. Though India recognized Tibet's autonomy ('verging on independence' as per Nehru's words),
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India began to vacillate under Nehru's weak leadership and was unable to stand up in favor of their peaceful neighbor against China. Hence began the sad but true scenario, where India started to bend in front of China, leading to China's hegemony and superficial dominance.
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On the foreign policy front, Nehru's weak actions and stance, unfortunately, made Tibet a sacrificial goat on 29 April 1954 when the "Panchsheel" agreement with China at Peking and
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"Agreement (with the exchange of notes) on trade and intercourse between the Tibet Region of China and India was signed. Nehru with his myopic vision and illogical beliefs trusted China's malicious intention to honour Panchsheel.
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Nehru always preferred living in his world, one disconnected from reality, the price for which India is still paying today. Nehru feigned total ignorance of military affairs and knowledge of how battles are waged at the ground level.
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Nehru himself stated the following on the need for a Defence policy- "Rubbish, total rubbish. We don't need a defence plan. Our policy is non-violence. We foresee no military threats. Scrap the Army...
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The police are good enough to meet our security needs." If a man who was leading India just after its independence had such incoherent, childish, ridiculous, crazy, and abhorrent thoughts, then indeed the situation had to be scary
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Nehru's thoughts were clouded by his own disillusion, where he disbelieved Chinese intrusion in Barhoti in 1954, Chinese territorial violations in Damzan (1955), Nilang (May 1956), Shipki La (SEp 1956), Khurnak Fort in Ladakh (July 1958),
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Lohit Frontier Division -NEFA (SEP-oct 1958). All of this proved his intelligence failure, thanks to Nehru's lackadaisical attitude
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General Thimmaya resigned in protest of VK Krishna Menon's refusal to consider his plans for preparing the army regarding the shortcomings of the foreseeable 1962 war. This led to a crisis in the higher command. The COAS and eastern army commanders were merely figureheads.
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All of this strategic failure and untimely interference by Nehru and his companions made us lose the 1962 war, despite the brave and heroic front put up by our soldiers
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The indictment of General BM Kaul, who was Nehru's crony as the Army Supply Corps Officer, led to weak decision-making, as he eventually fled from the 4th Corps Command HQ overnight feigning sickness. It was precisely then that the soldiers faced attacks at the Dhola pass
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Nehru was a weak statesman, an incapable decision-maker, a man away from ground realities, and someone who had an inconsistent chain of thoughts. His weak positioning in front of China and other nations because of his selfish interests, pushed India into an abyss.
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He never had India and its citizens well-being at his heart, rather pursued national and international agenda's compliant with his own line of thinking and beliefs. The current situation with regard to India-China skirmishes is a result of his poor diplomacy
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and strategic skills. The list is long when it comes to discussing Nehru's failed legacy and its impact on India, both internally and globally.
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The way India is progressing and moving out of Nehru's failed policies is a great step and most importantly is the befitting rebuttal given to the failed dragon.
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