Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot yesterday had flayed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for tearing apart India's foreign policy of non-alignment founded by Jawaharlal Nehru and carried forward by Indira Gandhi.
But who cares? What did non-aligned policy gave to India? Nothing but, insult and betrayal at the hands of the member nations. The friendly nations praised India as a leader against colonialism and racism, but almost all of them did not support India during its conflicts with Pakistan and China.
He also criticized Modi for interfering in US politics by campaigning for President Donald Trump during the event, forgetting the failed intervention of Nehru in Chinese affairs.
Nehru's interference in Tibet provoked China to wage a war against India in 1962, despite his successful attempts to acknowledge Chinese rule in Tibet and get the hostile neighbor a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council.
Nehru's intervention in Hungary revolution also disappointed Russia in 1956 as the first Indian Prime Minister had acted against Nikita Krushchev's interests by supporting Hungarian rebels, who were demanding a more democratic political system and freedom from Soviet oppression. This had a bearing in 1962 war as Khrushchev refused to dissuade China by giving lame excuse of its high-stakes gamble in Cuba.
Likewise, Indira Gandhi had provoked US President Richard Nixon and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger calling her and Indian people names when she made efforts to rouse international opinion and US conscience over the bloodletting in 1971 Bangladesh war, even though she had hypocritical slant towards Russia.
These were the insults and ignominies faced by Indians and its leaders because of unclear foreign policies.
In contrast, Modi's sweeping statements at the event was a demonstration of India's clear-cut foreign policies, which were in consonance with President Donald Trump's United States. He played the tunes of Trump hovering over the issues of border security and Radical Islamic Terror.
While Modi made reference to Pakistan being the hub of 9/11 and 26/11 terror attacks, Trump assured Indian Americans of protecting them from terror attacks and expanding defense cooperation with India. These references surely would force Beijing and Islamabad to analyse Washington's tough stance on China and India's success in resisting Pakistan's attempts to internationalize Kashmir.
As far as the Congress rant against Modi's interference in US election matters are concerned, it must be ignored in changing times, especially after Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin had blurred the old convention of keeping international politics and domestic partisanship, separate.
Moreover, Anand Sharma should understand the attendance of representatives of Democratic and Republican parties underscored the bipartisan nature of US relationship with India.
All said and done, the event was a testimony of New India's power in the eyes of the US under Modi's leadership, unlike the ignominy it faced during the Congress era, when global leaders like Nixon called Indira a bitch and Kissinger felt Indians were sanctimonious and hypocritical bastards.
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