Monday, November 08, 2010

Haunted by Nehru

"(India was offered a permanent seat on the council 55 years ago, in 1955. But that offer, made by the U.S. and the Soviet Union, was declined by India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Nerhu said the seat should be given to China instead.)"

12 comments:

Karmasura said...

Good riddance, imho, we would have ended up supporting despotic muslim regimes all over the globe and vetoed anything against them for petty vote bank politics.

Anonymous said...

China is very grateful for that decision - they glorify idiotic stupid Nehru for his lovely decision. and they are returning their favor by supporting pakistan, by encroaching into Leh illegally and claiming arunachal pradesh and many more good things. they are the most gratefull conutry in the universe. we should all thank nehru for this.

thanks china for treating India this way. please continue to do so.

Anonymous said...

China is very grateful for that decision - they glorify idiotic stupid Nehru for his lovely decision. and they are returning their favor by supporting pakistan, by encroaching into Leh illegally and claiming arunachal pradesh and many more good things. they are the most gratefull conutry in the universe. we should all thank nehru for this.

thanks china for treating India this way. please continue to do so.

Anonymous said...

china is very grateful to nehru for his lovely decision to refuse India's permanent membership in UNSC. they are returning that favour by all means. indian people should thank the wonderful nehru for their life. nehru you are one of the wonders of the universe, the light of china........ where are you the great of greats.....

seadog4227 said...

Please read "Are we Deceiving Ourselves Again?" by Arun Shourie: what is revealed is gripping and shocking.Foolishness, naievete, idiotic idealism, complete abnegation of reality......one runs out of adjectives.
We have yet to recover our kshatra dharma: uprightness combined with resolute fearlessness and statecraft.

cbcnn_Pilid said...

Noorani had an article in Frontline sometime ago where he described Mao's contemptuous view of Nehru. Looking back at the 1950s, Nehru's naivete comes across remarkably.

Anonymous said...

http://koenraadelst.blogspot.com/2010/11/guha-vs-elst.html

Elst rebukes Guha for his letter in Hindu. Must read.

Xinhua Ram said...

LiC declares month long celebrations:

Hu Jintao has been named the most powerful person in the world by Forbes, ahead of Obama

Anonymous said...

Seeing all the comments about your Founding Father Nehru, I think it is only fair to put the fact across.

The five permanent members (also known as the P5 or Big 5) of the UNSC were drawn from the victorious powers of World War II, and at the UN's founding in 1946. The issue of support was over whether ROC (Taiwan, supported by US, UK, France etc) or PRC (supported by USSR) was to be given the seat instead.

It is very simplistic (and erroneous) for the article to state otherwise, and to give the impression that India was to be given the UNSC Permanent seat on a platter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_General_Assembly_Resolution_2758

Xinhua Ram said...

A father who organized a support group for other parents whose children were sickened in one of China's worst food safety scandals was convicted and sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for inciting social disorder

Gandaragolaka said...

Thanks Anonymous. You alleviated my pain atleast a little bit.

I could have never come to grips with that sort of thing...

So let me now move and mourn about so many other nasty things that "our Founding Father Nehru" (where did you get that mate?) did.

Anonymous said...

Hi, as referenced below (WIKI):

India
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) is often referred to as the founding father of India. He was one of the top leaders of the Indian National Congress which struggled for the liberation of India from British rule.

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964), the first Prime Minister of India and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, India's First Deputy Prime Minister, are also considered as founding fathers.[21] It also refers to Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956), the architect of the Indian constitution, also an educationist, prominent political figure and India's first law minister.

Indian constitution provided constitutional guarantees and protections for a wide range of civil liberties for individual citizens, including freedom of religion, the abolition of untouchability and the outlawing of all forms of discrimination. Ambedkar argued for extensive economic and social rights for yong boy.

The Constitution was adopted on August 9, 1949 by the Constituent Assembly.

Although this usage is declining, when used in the plural, as the "Founding fathers" it usually refers to the members of the Constitutional Assembly's Draft Committee. Ironically the Drafting Committee also included women among its ranks.

Another interesting link:

http://www.hindu.com/2005/09/28/stories/2005092800270900.htm

Dated September 28, 1955. UN seat: Nehru clarifies:

Prime Minister Nehru has categorically denied any offer, formal or informal, having been received about a seat for India in the UN Security Council.

He made this statement in reply to a short notice question in the Lok Sabha on September 27 by Dr. J.N. Parekh whether India had refused a seat informally offered to her in the Security Council.

The Prime Minister said: "There has been no offer, formal or informal, of this kind. Some vague references have appeared in the press about it which have no foundation in fact. The composition of the Security Council is prescribed by the UN Charter, according to which certain specified nations have permanent seats. No change or addition can be made to this without an amendment of the Charter.

There is, therefore, no question of a seat being offered and India declining it. Our declared policy is to support the admission of all nations qualified for UN membership.''

On a side note, I personally believed had India been a 'Nation' after WWII in 1945, there would be a P6 with India being part of the UNSC.

Alas, this was not meant to be as It was still part of the British empire at that time.