He repeatedly keeps telling BJP was "reduced" to 2 seats. BJP never existed before 1980 and in their first election they had a double digit vote share and 2 seats which followed with 83 seats in the next 5 years. Extremely biased opinion for sure
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2004-14 was A LOST DECADE for the Economy,in 2004, China's Economy was 200% of India's Economy,But by 2014, China's Economy was 600% of India's Economy, China Used Global Economic Boom& Focussed on LPG& Manufacturing in that decade to Rise, Meanwhile, Corrupt UPA was busy in Only promoting IT,Doing Highly Leaky welfare schemes and Doing Huge Corruption Scandals and India reduced it's Gap with China from 2014 to 2024 to 430%, According to IMF projections,It will be 390% in 2028
2004-14 was A LOST DECADE for the Economy,in 2004, China's Economy was 200% of India's Economy,But by 2014, China's Economy was 600% of India's Economy, China Used Global Economic Boom& Focussed on LPG& Manufacturing in that decade to Rise, Meanwhile, Corrupt UPA was busy in Only promoting IT,Doing Highly Leaky welfare schemes and Doing Huge Corruption Scandals and India reduced it's Gap with China from 2014 to 2024 to 430%, According to IMF projections,It will be 390% in 2028
हमारे देश में जो अत्यंत गरीब हैं, वे दिन-ब-दिन... और अधिक गरीब होते जा रहे हैं... सबसे पहले "गरीबी हटाओ"...जो 25 साल पहले शुरू हुआ था, बहुत महत्वपूर्ण है... हमारे आधे नागरिक केवल एक समय भरपेट भोजन ही कर पाते हैं। पिछले 10-15 सालों में हर जगह महंगाई बढ़ने से आम आदमी का जीना बहुत मुश्किल हो गया है। . . वर्तमान सरकार और विपक्ष को एक साथ मिल कर सभ्य होना चाहिए, एक दूसरे के साथ एकजुट होना चाहिए और सबसे पहले हमारे देश के अंदर की सारी गंदगी को साफ करना चाहिए, ..... सबसे महत्वपूर्ण है कि जनता के पैसे को बर्बाद करने के बजाय धर्मों के बीच एकता और शांति बनाई जाए। दुनिया भर का दौरा करना और चुनाव लड़ना... भगवान राम भी कितने प्रसन्न होंगे... पत्रकारों, मीडिया, CJI, ASI, ED आदि को ऐसे मुद्दों पर बहस करनी चाहिए.. अफ़सोस की बात है कि उनमें से अधिकांश एकतरफ़ा हैं, जिन्हें "हमारे देश के अंदर के बहुत महत्वपूर्ण मुद्दों" की कोई परवाह नहीं है! 0:36 0:39 0:40
oh come on, how would he tell the truth? thats not what these people do. everything wrong which has happened is with modi and the rise of BJP according to these lutyens elitists.
@grapeshott bro. You need to do some analytical research on the Nehruvian political legacy. The biggest blunder was Kashmir, second Indira! Let's not even get to his stupidity on international politics (or selfishness to be termed the greatest leader.)
The very poor in our country are getting more poorer, day by day..... "Garibi hatao" first... which started 25 years ago, is very important... Half our citizens are able to take just one full meal only. In the past 10 - 15 years, rising prices everywhere, makes it very difficult for the common man's living. . . The present government and the opposition, together, should civilize, unite with each other and clean all the mess inside our country first, ..... most important to make unity & peace between religions..... instead of wasting public monies touring the world and fighting for elections... Lord Ram will be so happy too..... Journalists, media, CJI, ASI, ED etc. should be debating about such issues.. It's a pity most of them are one sided, who do not care for the "very important issues inside our country" !
@@josephdsouza1515Haven’t you seen the likes of Rajdeep Sardesai with Anti Modi rant? Even such journalists ( S.G. Included) could not deny work done by Modi for the poor. Right from free ration to direct benefit transfer and building homes/toilets to free education to girls, several initiatives have benefitted the poor. Ram mandir was constructed by money donated by people, remember that
Stupid and biased analysis as though the dynastic congress had a right to rule for ever. BJP came up because of its cadres and discipline and now Modi is the vote puller. It has nothing to do with the jailing of RSS people or RG not forming a shaky coalition. Nor can one say that BJP would have returned if elections were not advanced. Mr Shekhar has a soft corner for the first family and is seething within that they are nowhere near power.
2004-14 was A LOST DECADE for the Economy,in 2004, China's Economy was 200% of India's Economy,But by 2014, China's Economy was 600% of India's Economy, China Used Global Economic Boom& Focussed on LPG& Manufacturing in that decade to Rise, Meanwhile, Corrupt UPA was busy in Only promoting IT,Doing Highly Leaky welfare schemes and Doing Huge Corruption Scandals and India reduced it's Gap with China from 2014 to 2024 to 430%, According to IMF projections,It will be 390% in 2028
No 1 blunder not having a UCC to begin with by the so called secular parties. No 2 blunder vilifying Modi so much that he became Hero No 1 for the Hindus who saw a spate of terrorist attacks and the Congress and gang and its darbaris defending the terrorists. No 3 Shah Bano Not necessarily in that order.
Remember the phrase " Wolf in Sheep's clothing" This editorial is for those to understand that phrase ..A class act .!. When you are mature and experienced you can camouflage your hatred ( here for the RSS ) . The whole theme of this editorial is his dislike and HATRED of RSS and Sangh.. Unfortunately . the Indian citizenry is always smarts and can see thru
Shekhar Gupta has problems Narendra Modi coming to power. Hence three mistakes chosen by him are in this context. This is typical case of Shekhar Gupta losing his objectivity due to his hatred of Narendra Modi
More importantly, he is just an Islam-o-leftist mercenary who sell themselves & near ones to please their foreign masters and their brown slaves led by congress/INDI alliance crooks!!
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Main blunder is at the roots. The beginning. If Nehru embraced private sector and incubated it, it would've created millions of jobs. Manufacturing should have come into the open while government should just regulate it. Defence should have been given better push. We should have been a net exporter and not an import dependant nation. Bringing special laws for muslims and discriminatory ones for Hindus and other faiths was a huge blunder. This is not secularism by any means. If these were done, we'd be a better nation.
Yeah,Infact if Lehru Embraced Free Market Economy, Vajpayee and Modi would have been a Congress Persons and 2004-14 was A LOST DECADE for the Economy,in 2004, China's Economy was 200% of India's Economy,But by 2014, China's Economy was 600% of India's Economy, China Used Global Economic Boom& Focussed on LPG& Manufacturing in that decade to Rise, Meanwhile, Corrupt UPA was busy in Only promoting IT,Doing Highly Leaky welfare schemes and Doing Huge Corruption Scandals and India reduced it's Gap with China from 2014 to 2024 to 430%, According to IMF projections,It will be 390% in 2028
2004-14 was A LOST DECADE for the Economy,in 2004, China's Economy was 200% of India's Economy,But by 2014, China's Economy was 600% of India's Economy, China Used Global Economic Boom& Focussed on LPG& Manufacturing in that decade to Rise, Meanwhile, Corrupt UPA was busy in Only promoting IT,Doing Highly Leaky welfare schemes and Doing Huge Corruption Scandals and India reduced it's Gap with China from 2014 to 2024 to 430%, According to IMF projections,It will be 390% in 2028
Given the exploitation of the country by the Empire till 1947, there was no way Nehru and the leaders of the time would have decided to go the capitalist way. Retrospectively it may look like a foolish decision but just try to picture yourself in those times
Look, we all criticise Nehru because we have the hindsight of what happened in 80s and 90s. Nehru didn't know that it will turn out like that. In his time, the soviet style of governance was the hottest thing in the world. The Soviets had just defeated the Germans which kinda proved their superiority and the superiority of their planned economy over the hardcore industrialization of the Nazis. You can't blame Nehru for being impressed by the soviet model because if we would have been in that time, we would have been seduced by that too. Also, Nehru had this fear of crony capitalism getting strong which would eventually only lead to communists getting powerful as what was happening in Europe at that time which is why he discouraged industrialists like even his friend JRD Tata. Today we obviously know that that were wrong policies, but we have the hindsight which Nehru didn't had.
@subramanianavv1989 nationalisation of the banks is the point from where people trusted the banks. most of the people at that time period didn't have any financial literacy. Also farmers didn't easily got loans at least they weren't even cared by private at that time period.
I'd argue that the biggest mistake was Shah Bano. Leaving aside the moral indefensibility of Rajiv's response, the reaction to it helped fan the flames of Hindutva. Moreover, because of it Rajiv failed to properly respond to the situation surrounding Babri Masjid as he didn't want to be seen as too favorable to Muslims
These people don't consider Mandal and Shah banu a blunder. They would prefer more of those. Let's not kid ourselves, the term "blunder" here means events that lead to rise of BJP, and not blunder from a national perspective.
Despite what political ruling party, The 75 years Three blunders are: #1 Expose internal political weakness to Chou-en Lai in 1962 leading to 1963 war disaster #2 not fixing education system to German like polytechnic skills based education system #3 remove bureaucratic hurdles and promote manufacturing base to improve employment
Wow another expert in the field of growth and development. Internet is full of great experts. I assume u did only polytechnic diploma and is doing some manufacturing business now. If not, then please stop saying things u r not a part of. If u don't put ur life or money behind it, then u r not a stake holder. If u r just in diploma and making a great living or u r in manufacturing business with great value then, ur insight are valuable. U r either economist or a real expert. Which is you ?
2004-14 was A LOST DECADE for the Economy,In 2004,China's Economy was 200% of India's Economy,But by 2014,China's Economy was 600% of India's Economy,China Used Global Economic Boom& Focussed on LPG& Manufacturing in that decade to Rise, Meanwhile, Corrupt UPA was busy in Only promoting IT,Doing Highly Leaky welfare schemes and Doing Huge Corruption Scandals and India reduced it's Gap with China from 2014 to 2024 to 430%, According to IMF projections,It will be 390% in 2028, During 2004-14, Global Growth was 5%, China's was 13% and India's only 6.7%, During 2014-24, Global Growth is only 2%, China's at 5.5% and India's at 6%
Please don't ask Intelligent questions to our esteemed journalists! They will get found out for their lack of knowledge, wisdom and their love for one family and party!
Disappointed with SG's analysis...he seems to speak as if Indian voters have no mind of their own and can be easily manipulated by those in power. SG, it is time to accept humbly that Congress seized to be a grassroot party and its time was over with 1991 reforms. Nothing to do with Indira's blunders or Rajiv's...
Indian voters have no mind of their own; stop fantasizing about a dream world that doesn't exist. People still vote for caste lines and are still being manipulated. How else can molesters like Brijbhushan Yadav rise to power? How else is the criminalisation in politics still persistent? Who do you think creates all these "waves"? Go and read about Gramsci and open your eyes to the real world. You think you have an actual choice? Lol, how cute.
> he seems to speak as if Indian voters have no mind of their own and can be easily manipulated by those in power. He wouldn't be wrong about that would he? "Imagine how dumb the average human is, and then imagine half of them are even dumber." "Good thing about democracy is that everyone gets a vote, Bad thing about democracy is that everyone gets a vote." That would be true for voters all over the world, but we shall talk about india as we are indians here. Our people lack the ability to see beyond the edges of their noses. We must not kid ourselves. This is country where neither capitalism nor communism works, it's where populism thrives. Voting should not be a right for everyone, but a privilege for those who are truly eligible.
As a child of the 70s and who followed Indian politics closely since, I can tell you that the biggest blunders by far was Shah Bano and Mandal. The BJP was nowhere in the picture but those two blunders combinedI to transform the BJP from a party of traders to a nationalist movement fusing together anti-sickular voter base
Mo D's heart beats only for Muslims who never votes him even after getting benefits that are 2.3 times of what a Hindu beneficiary gets. Mo D is winning due to his first class AIYYARI i.e. masking, dramebaji and video clips.
@@prohind if being poor Justifies Islamization of India, our Muslims will be poor till they become majority. That's why he's helping them to become ex-poor.
Shekar sometimes try to portray Modi & Shah as uneducated, but even if we assume that they are uneducated, if they have right mindset and passion to take our country ahead, they can achieve things that other educated but silent PM couldn't do. e.g. 370, GST, Infrastructure, Water scheme, Jan Dhan Scheme for bank accounts, Digital payments etc. Also BJP choose more technocratic people like Jaishankar, Gadkari in their ministries rather than unqualified politicians like Lalu or Mamta.
The repeated use of Indira Gandhi and Rajeev Gandhi pics thru the video took me back to Doordarshan days whereyou could see only faces. So Modi has come to power only because of the blunders done by Indira, Rajeev and Advani else he would still been a karyakarta. What a viewpoint
I am getting laugh after seeing this video. Poor SG. He is trying like anything to favour Congress rule. Indians now are clearly aware of all the circumstances and situations. People are with BJP.
Lost on translation! The print messed up with title on this one! Making it sound like modi coming to power was blunder! Lol, can't hide the inner biases.
The biggest blunder has been to accept the British definition of civilization, secularism, liberalism and perpetrating it after independence. In 1947 we had a choice to reclaim our civilization. But we decided to become Brown Sahibs. This video itself is an indicator of how much we have internalized the standards of the British….
1. The misuse of secularism and the attack on Hinduism. 2. Tokenism on uplifting Dalits, but no social changes that makes material impact on their lives 3. Govt control and license raj pre 1991 that kept a whole lot off country poor.
According to me the biggest blunders which are hurting our national interest are 1. Wrong education policies. 2. Reversal of Shah Banoo judgement. 3. Mandal commission 4. Changing our agricultural policies. Thrusting GM seeds
Mr Sekhar sir, I have high respect for your insightful thoughts on many matters relating to Indian polity. But I completely disagree with your observation that Modi rewarded Advani for his blunders. It is like to say, with due respect, that you are born out of your father's incapacity to control himself in intimacy with your mother. I think that you would be angry with my words. Simply because your observation on Advani being rewarded for his blunders and my words about your parents are both wrong and obnoxious. So, let's have decency while commenting on others. I hope you catch my unhappiness.
Biggest Ever Political Blunder : Mahatma Gandhi asking Sardar Patel to concede the 1946 Congress elections to Nehru, although Patel had won 13 of the 15 Congress Pradesh Committees.
Hahahaa.. the guy invoking "Whatsapp University" got trolled for his lack of knowledge! But the problem with our country is that people want to believe what they want, rather than analytically researching for themselves! Had Ashwin done that, he would not have called out the truth as "Whatsapp University" and laughed out loud.. I so wish that people do their research before labelling others!
@tushar9535 1950. Yet, he wrote not to trust China, not to take Kashmir to UN. Those 2-3 years were vital years for our nascent country and we lost the visionary steering the country from that position. As for Nehru, he shouldn't have been even near the position of powers.
interesting analysis. I am not sure, how Rajiv could have formed government in 1989 ? BJP would not have supported him. only option would have been a split in Janata Dal, which was perhaps possible. Anyway, India has done and doing much better under PM Modi and everything that happened, happened for good, including the blunders
Like the typical left-liberal journalist obsessed with RSS, you err in giving so much importance to the arrest of RSS cadres by Indira Gandhi’s government. Actually, imposition of emergency should top the list. That experience for my generation, and its memory passed on to the later generations has made every Indian alert against any kind of authoritarian tendencies in our politics. What can be more transformational than this?
It's funny that these leftists or fake liberal have their narratives!! Yet!! If one sees closely enough RSS always helped the nation & it's people!! This was even accepted by Congress & their highest dynasty leaders!! Yet!! these pseudo liberal media crooks won't call Nehru/congress communal who killed Sikhs & created Islamic Pakistan with their M brothers after robbing Indian lands!!
Mr. Shekar Gupta, you forgot the Shah Banu judgement reversal and the opening of Ayodhaya doors by Rajiv Gandhi. In my mind, that was perhaps the biggest political decision of them all. He grandfathered BJP's rise through this decision. His son's interview to Arnab was just a continuation of the family's tradition
I am personally very disappointed with SG, clearly he had an agenda with this episode. I am so surprised that he did not even mention the Shah Bano judgment. That was so wrong morally in overturning the Supreme Court judgment. It was just not right from a human values perspective and not standing up for the right thing. That to me was the number 1 trigger that went on to alter the landscape of Indian politics.
According to SG "The rise of BJP and Modi are the biggest blunders of independent India". LoL 😅 They are not the biggest blunders of India but the Indian national Congress 😂
Bro.. actually these stooges were close to power structures and enjoyed privileged life that was not available for us peasants- not because of their scholarship but ability to flatter the powerful. Now that is gone and SG is trying to explain what led to the demise of Congress' close control of power and changes that have put india on the fast track for global leadership!
The biggest blunder is to choose Nehru as prime minister instead of Patel. The congress is a curse to this nation and it should be barred to fight election.
All the "intellectual" BS. Given highly political nature of Islam, wherever muslims are in enough numbers, opposing Force would definitely form may be in form of BJP or Afd(germany) or PVV (netherlands) or Wirathu(Myanmar) or ReformUK(England) or Meloni(Italy) or Le pen ( France). If RSS was not present it would be in different form. In India this ideology is called hindutva in Netherlands it's directly called anti islam. Ok let me explain more. Suppose Congress did held muslims accountable what would happen then? Muslims would call congress Anti muslim and play victim card. Another party would have come to claim their votes.( Would be Left). Then slowly and gradually congress would become "anti islam" party. And after some years of terrorist attacks ( common among muslims) Gupta would it was mistake of congress to not be soft with muslims. Bottomline - Islam creates polarization eventually
Blunders in respect to what ? National interest? Congress’s interest? Or in interest of said prime ministers. In my opinion 3 blunders were 1 choosing socialism after independence 2 emergency and subsequent erosion of constitutional institutions of India (SC,EC President etc.) by Mrs Gandhi 3 Mandal commission report’s adoption by VP Sing. These three decisions altered the entire trajectory of Indian politics.
1. Not having a full population swap with Pakistan. All Muslims in Pakistan & India for Dharmic 2. Alliance with USA over USSR in 1947. 1991 growth is due to America. They were a new empire and would liked to be allies with India for legitimacy 3. Economic ties to the west but like Japan keep Hindu roots but modernised with industrialisation and urbanisation that ends caste
One mistake that SG always makes, in 1984 people supported Congress due to death of Indiraji. It was not rejection of BJP or other opposition parties and their ideologies. But in 2014 people rejected Congress, in 2019 people rejected Congress and its ideology and preferred BJP's ideology and in 2024, people are going to wipe out Congress and its ideology and its ecosystem too and majority of the people have whole heartedly accepted the ideology and goal of development and cultural nationalism. People of my generation who used admire USA and felt ashamed of being Indian and apologetic of being Hindu, have started taking pride in identifying themselves as Indians and Hindus. All 80-90 years of effort of Nehru and his dynasty have been defeated and people have started identifying themselves with Ram, Krishna, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Sawarkar, Tilak, Patel and Vivekananda. The biggest mistake that Congress and Nehru did was undermining and underestimating the common Indian and Hindu and their immense faith in Parmeshwar, Dharm and Karm.
Shekhar Gupta is like a retired cricketer who laments that he got out without scoring far too many times in his batting career. Where was his agility when he went out to bat ??
Congress when losing blame Evms.Lawyers when lose their battle at courts blame judiciary is dead and declining SG when he finds people are😢with Modi and finds himself badly mauled in this columns calls Indian voters uneducated illiterate and finally wants to call those who vote for Modi fools of first'order
I would say, to end the carrier of Pranab Da, by giving him president post was the biggest blunder by Congress. As they thought that he can be the only person who can challenge the Gandhi family
I wonder how the Shah Banu case isn’t considered here. The damage it did to Congress’ equity is unparalleled I think. The Congress choosing to appease minority over doing the right thing still leaves me dumbfounded
i cannot call shekhar as uneducated but the political blunders of india especially cong-i are 1. taking kashmir to un without discussing with people 2. giving away un set in favour of china 3. declaration of emergency and insertion of secularism in non democratic manner during emergency
Wouldnt the indian politics' biggest blunder be Kashmir and Article 370? The piece should have been named: SG's view on how Modi rose to power! What he listed here were not mistakes. This piece so clearly shows his disdain towards the current dispensation.
Your angst is well articulated. What to do? Accept the decline of Congress and stop portraying BJP rise as a Congress gift. Indian voters know their politics.
I dont know about political but strategically biggest blunder are 1 Moraji Desai, the worst PM of any nation who sabotaged his own countrymen intelligence operation 2 1962 debacle of not using air force 3 Nehru opposing India permanent membership in UNSC If these could be undone, India would have been a stronger and potent nation
KS thimayya himself wrote that Indian Air force and army were not strong as Chinese as back as 1959. Using air force would have escalated the war. Obviously the advice of military heads would have been taken
The partition of India was the biggest blunder. Gandhi and Nehru deserves complete blame for it. All of India’s security threat internal or external is directly linked to it.
I liked the analysis .Having said that, in the analysis, there is an underlying assumption In the whole narrative that these were blunders ...in my view they were historical accidents ..people choose what is good for them always at a given point of time in a democracy and hence we cannot call them blunders from peoples perspective Coming to accidents perse, i still rank indira gandhis action above Rajiv gandhis ..firstly It eroded peoples confidence in Congress and first time opposition parties of different hues subdued their ideological bases and came together which changed the nature of Indian politics after that
My analysis of past 44 years (born in 1979): Until 1989 - Congress is the ONLY party 1989 - 1991 - What is GOING ON!?! 1991 - 1996 - Ok, Congress is back in Power and they are doing some new things and I like it but it feels weird 1996 - 1998 - Umm…I guess that was a false alarm. 1999 - 2004 : This is BJP? Umm..it’s not as bad as they made it out to be. 2004 - 2009 : I liked BJP but you guys seem to be singing with the same rhythm. 2009 - 2014 : WHAT IS THIS SCARY RIDE? LET ME OUT!!! PLEASE!! 2014 - Now : Calmness…………..
Wow! To blame Rajiv Gandhi for the “Left parties” like CPM, CPI and the “parties for the backward classes” to align with the untouchable BJP, to give them the foothold in Indian politics !! How afraid of the current establishment the Indian news media has to be ? And when (if ever) will an Indian frontline journalist present a truthful analysis of the Emergency ?
Biggest political blunder is by 1st CONgress to surrender cum appeasement to Barelvi, Wahabi Islamist extremists after ethnic cleansing on Direct Action Day to dismember Akhand Bharat. 2nd making blunder boy CCP Commine Chi Cha Bandit Nehru as "PM" of dominion state of E.N.D.I.A. 3rd making a Maulana Education Minister not just once but twice. Bonus: Bumping off Gandhi was delayed by decades, would have got Independence 25 years earlier had it not been for him.
Total chamchagiri by Coupta. Here are the biggest blunders of independent India 1) Appointing Nehru as the PM instead of Patel or Netaji. This blunder is equal to a Billion blunders 2) Not doing a complete population exchange and calling India a Hindu nation. 3) Not getting Kashmir back even after a massive victory in 1971. All other mistakes like socialism, permit raj, IAS, etc were all a result of blunder 1.
Shekhar ji is very smart presenter. By restricting his discourse only to last 50 years, he has cleverly circumvented the biggest political blunder of independent India: that was prime ministership to Nehru ji instead of Sardar Patel ji.
Accepted this is an opinion piece but it clearly points out SG's thoughts, biases, sympathies, and consequently where his pen lies. Was very disappointed with the whole selection as the most blunder-prone times in India's politics from the Nehru era to VP singh's are not even considered and these 3 'blunders' are picked. His repeated uttering 'legitimizing RSS' as if it were a banned organization involved in criminal or anti-national activities lays bare his claim to be an unbiased journalist that needs to be supported in his fervent claims when asking for subscriptions. The way all 3 'blunders' are narrated or called blunders in the first place is because they culminated as per SG in Modi becoming the PM.
By far, the biggest political blunder was made by MK Gandhi when he chose, Nehru as the Prime Minister Of India despite the fact Nehru did not get a single Pradesh congress committee vote. This has had the most far reaching consequences on the path independent India. The second biggest blunder was made by Sardar Patel when he gave away his 12 out of 15 Pradesh congress committee votes to Nehru. By the way, Patel did not have the right to give away his votes to someone else. Gandhi should have recognized this and should not have accepted this vote transfer.
If it had been a AICC vote Nehru would have won hands down. Patel won simply because he was a party man and did backroom work. He worked with other PCC presidents. He was himself a Gujarat PCC president for a long time. Nehru was way more popular than patel. Patel was popular in Gujarat but Nehru was all India leader. Also you should know Nehru was elected president of congress in 1951, just a year before election. And 1952 election was won by him by huge majority. There was no difference between Patel and Nehru over economic policies. Maybe Patel would have better dealt with china but both had agreed to a mixed economy model. Patel was harder on communists. And plus, Patel died by 1950. Before his death, all decisions were taken jointly by both Nehru and him as Patel was deputy PM.
Sorry Mr SG instead it was the appeasement policy which every political party resorted to which geared up the rest in favour of BJP followed by the all out efforts by Sonia to crush Modi in the Godhra case.
The Biggest Blunder was lifting the ban on RSS by Cong. Govt. in 1950. Also the handling the Mahathma Gandhi assignation case with Kid gloves. Left Savarkar to go free., etc.,
He is counting only those blunders that seemingly caused the raise of BJP. He is not concerned about their other 'blunders' that were detrimental to the country and its citizens.
These are our leader's blunders from a Congress vs BJP point of view. Not from a "hampering development" point of view. This just talks about power struggle. I actually expected you to say something like doing liberalization in 1991 instead of in the 60s,legitimiing creation of Pak as a theocratic state(remember Pak is just a more extremist version of Israel in terms of its creation) and not building better infrastructure and stronger and more just constitution
Undoubtedly Shekar Gupta’s and Rajdeep Sardesai’s continue to be Congress’s cheer leaders - SG doing it covertly while Rajdeep doing it overtly. There is nothing wrong in it but my only question is why are these elite journalists batting for Congress party, a national party that sheperded freedom movement under the greats like MK Gandhi, Nehru, Vallab Bhai Patel, Maulana Azad etc., is later ruined by Nehru’s daughter first and later by Nehru’s grandson’s family and great grandson ( both of whom are a**h***s). Can Shekar Gupta clarify this question in one of his episodes please
SG, the biggest blunder starts with Nehru and ends with Dr MMS. Conveniently forgets the Shah Bhanu case, the appeasement of muslims. Congress reorganising states on linguistic basis was the biggest blunder alongside Protecting Article 370 in Kashmir. Modi is here to stay and come back more strongly in 2024.
Blunders during the last 50 years: 1) Imposition of Emergency: Reason- Common people still laugh when Congress says that Narendra Modi ji is an autocrat. 2) Operation Bluestar: Reason- We alienated our Sikh brothers and we lost Indira Gandhi ji. 3) Sending IPKF to Sri Lanka: Reason - a) We lost hundreds of our soldiers while they killed our Tamil brothers. b) We lost Rajiv Gandhi ji.
My 3 blunders : 1. Imposition of Emergency 2. Overturning Supreme court verdict on Shah Bano by constitutional amendment. 3. Demonizing of BJP by Congress for nearly 20 yrs.
The biggest blunder (actually bordering on criminal act) was refusal to allow Sardar Patel to be PM, orchestrated by a pedophile. Had Patel become PM, both Gandhi and Nehru would have migrated to Pakistan along with the rest of the Hinduphobes
Very interesting! I think many didn't understand the idea behind this episode/article. Shekhar is talking about political blunders which had a political impact, not socio-economic or geopolitical impact.
Shekhar Gupta, those 'leaders' are your leaders! Not our leaders. India gained independence on January 22, 2024. Until then, we Indians were living in a transfer-of-power state.
_When talking about the past we often over the role of _*_circumstance_*_ in making those decisions. Leaders are just humans who are driven by incentives like everyone else, and incentives is a function of socio culture order of the times. Often times the decision would be exactly the same if another individual were in their position_
It should have been from 1947. All 3 would have been Nehru. 1. Gifting Kabo Valley to Myanmar. 2. Nehru's Kashmir policy (Refusal to accept Kashmir's accession to Bharat, unilaterally declaring ceasefire and going to UN, Article 370 etc) 3. Nehru's China policy (Supporting Tibet invasion, gifting Aksai Chin to China and refusal to allow Air Force to support the Army in 1962 war etc)
Refusal to accept accession? Hari Singh was an idiot, he did not sign instrument of accession on 15th august 1947 but wanted to be independent. Had he signed before that date, Indian Army would have been deployed on borders. He signed stand still agreement instead.
@@Aashutosh_Payaal28 Hari Singh signed the instrument of accession 3x and it was accepted by Mountbatten on the 3rd occasion, after Pakistan invaded India. Better check up on true history. The Khan of Kalat also signed the instrument of accession but Nehru rejected it too, following which, Pakistan invaded and made Balochistan a part of Pakistan. The sufferings on the Tibetans, Baloch and Kashmiris are all the fault of 2 Hinduphobes: Nehru and his mentor, Gandhi.
@@prakashsurendran6285 Ok so I will easily counter all these whatsApp arguments using authentic data and sources. 1.) On 15th July 1946 Maharaja Hari Singh said that Kashmiris 'would work out their own destiny without dictation from any quarter not an integral part of the state'. 2.) In the third week of June 1047 Mountbatten went to Kashmir. In srinagar The viceroy meets PM of Kashmir, Ramchandra Kak and asked him to accede to either dominion. The PM answered defiantly that they wanted to stay independent. 3.) On 15th August 1947 Hari Singh offered to signed A standstill agreement with India and Pakistan. Pakistan signed this but India said it would wait and watch. So that means Kashmir did not accede to India like other hindu rulers did before 15 August 1947. 4.) On 27 September, Nehru wrote a letter to Patel about deteriorating situation in Kashmir and of possibility of Pakistan trying to send infiltrators to kashmir in large numbers. Nehru further wrote to Patel that Hari Singh should make friends with abdullaah (who was pro India at that time) 5.) On 12 October 1947 Deputy PM of kashmir confirms the desire of maharaja to stay independent. If you want proofs I can send them to you of all these 5 points
@@Aashutosh_Payaal28 You must have referred to Irfan Habib, Romila Thapar and other Marxist Hinduphobic distorians. Listen to statements on the above by Dr. Sudanshu Trivedi, which even the Khangress and Ghandy family never disputed. All atrocities of the British and the Mughals were whitewashed by Khangress and the leftists. Malabar Moplah genocide of Hindus in 1921 was lauded by Gandhi and Congress and the leaders were proclaimed national heroes and given "freedom fighter's pension" until recently. Don't just send proof, send evidence to back your so-called "proof". Irfan Habib, Romila Thapar etc were exposed as distorians when they challenged the ASI findings on Ram Janambhumi. They made wild claims without any evidence. All records of the period were in Parsi or Sanskrit, which none of the Marxist distorians knew, but claim to be the ultimate authority.
Mr. SG .. Back to your original Left of centre Ideology again. You smartly excluded the real blunders of Congress in the disguise of calling out only political blunders. Secondly, you counted two of the Indira, and Rajiv actions as blunders just because that led to the legitimisation of RSS & rise of the BJP to the current level...as if the RSS and BJP are some antinational institutions and don't have any place in your so-called pseudo secular India...??
SGji mentions 3 epoch-making junctures in Indian politics.. Rajiv Gandhi opening the door.. Indira Gandhi for the inhuman tortures she meted out to common Indians... And Advani with his India Shining campaign Really interesting National Interest which is provocative as well as profound Respect SGji❤
Shekharji, Because of the blunders committed by Congress rulers, it had effected the fate of Congress in a negative way, not the Nations fortune. The rise of BJP has been good for the nation only as they are much more Nationalistic and have a clear and ambitious targets.
The big elephant in the room sadly missed: the root cause of holding India back all these years since 1947- Gandhi Ji getting Nehru to be the Pm overriding the claims from Sardar Patel ,aristocracy, elitism overtaking Indic and nationalism and competence. That led to the worst dynasty banking on "secularism" and minority vote catching - dividing the country -ending with what we have today. Shekar Ji is of course a pundit , but preoccupied with Modi rise. No surprises there.
You know Shekar doesn't sound unbiased, but more like lamenting that if only we didn't do this, we didn't do that, then Modi would not be in power.
He repeatedly keeps telling BJP was "reduced" to 2 seats. BJP never existed before 1980 and in their first election they had a double digit vote share and 2 seats which followed with 83 seats in the next 5 years. Extremely biased opinion for sure
Shekhar Coupta represents STD patient of the @The print that is de facto GB road like media house of Congress & INDI alliance crooks!!
Believe it or not Modi has proved to be an able administrator in many aspects.
@@megahealth2024ek baat mere palle nahi padti. Zara explain karna. ABP News aur Aaj Tak pro BJP hai par unki videos par sirf anti BJP comments hote hai aur Mojo Story aur The Print anti BJP hai par inki videos par pro BJP comments hote hai. Aisa kyun🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@mohitrawat5225 Leadership quality Alag hi, Party Philosophy alag Hai.
I think for a lot of people Modi's BJP is not a ticket to prosperity but an insurance against batshit crazy ideas.
Take a bow
2004-14 was A LOST DECADE for the Economy,in 2004, China's Economy was 200% of India's Economy,But by 2014, China's Economy was 600% of India's Economy, China Used Global Economic Boom& Focussed on LPG& Manufacturing in that decade to Rise, Meanwhile, Corrupt UPA was busy in Only promoting IT,Doing Highly Leaky welfare schemes and Doing Huge Corruption Scandals and India reduced it's Gap with China from 2014 to 2024 to 430%, According to IMF projections,It will be 390% in 2028
2004-14 was A LOST DECADE for the Economy,in 2004, China's Economy was 200% of India's Economy,But by 2014, China's Economy was 600% of India's Economy, China Used Global Economic Boom& Focussed on LPG& Manufacturing in that decade to Rise, Meanwhile, Corrupt UPA was busy in Only promoting IT,Doing Highly Leaky welfare schemes and Doing Huge Corruption Scandals and India reduced it's Gap with China from 2014 to 2024 to 430%, According to IMF projections,It will be 390% in 2028
Prosperity will never come in just 10 years, whats happening now will only give its full effect after another decade.
हमारे देश में जो अत्यंत गरीब हैं, वे दिन-ब-दिन... और अधिक गरीब होते जा रहे हैं...
सबसे पहले "गरीबी हटाओ"...जो 25 साल पहले शुरू हुआ था, बहुत महत्वपूर्ण है...
हमारे आधे नागरिक केवल एक समय भरपेट भोजन ही कर पाते हैं।
पिछले 10-15 सालों में हर जगह महंगाई बढ़ने से आम आदमी का जीना बहुत मुश्किल हो गया है। . .
वर्तमान सरकार और विपक्ष को एक साथ मिल कर सभ्य होना चाहिए, एक दूसरे के साथ एकजुट होना चाहिए और सबसे पहले हमारे देश के अंदर की सारी गंदगी को साफ करना चाहिए, ..... सबसे महत्वपूर्ण है कि जनता के पैसे को बर्बाद करने के बजाय धर्मों के बीच एकता और शांति बनाई जाए। दुनिया भर का दौरा करना और चुनाव लड़ना...
भगवान राम भी कितने प्रसन्न होंगे...
पत्रकारों, मीडिया, CJI, ASI, ED आदि को ऐसे मुद्दों पर बहस करनी चाहिए.. अफ़सोस की बात है कि उनमें से अधिकांश एकतरफ़ा हैं, जिन्हें "हमारे देश के अंदर के बहुत महत्वपूर्ण मुद्दों" की कोई परवाह नहीं है! 0:36 0:39 0:40
Shocking Mr Shekhar. You missed Himalayan Nehru blunders
oh come on, how would he tell the truth? thats not what these people do. everything wrong which has happened is with modi and the rise of BJP according to these lutyens elitists.
He believes that Nehru never made any mistakes.😅😅
Most of them are exaggerated by anti-Nehru leaders, or Are blatant lies. And this video isn't about all mistakes, but only those which cost elections
He has listed blunders in last 50 years, to conveniently save Nehru. There is a politician in every journalist!
@grapeshott bro. You need to do some analytical research on the Nehruvian political legacy.
The biggest blunder was Kashmir, second Indira! Let's not even get to his stupidity on international politics (or selfishness to be termed the greatest leader.)
Obsession with Modi . You keep assuming that Narendra Modi coming to power was a wrong thing . Another stooge of the congress scholarship.
The very poor in our country are getting more poorer, day by day.....
"Garibi hatao" first... which started 25 years ago, is very important...
Half our citizens are able to take just one full meal only.
In the past 10 - 15 years, rising prices everywhere, makes it very difficult for the common man's living. . .
The present government and the opposition, together, should civilize, unite with each other and clean all the mess inside our country first, ..... most important to make unity & peace between religions..... instead of wasting public monies touring the world and fighting for elections...
Lord Ram will be so happy too.....
Journalists, media, CJI, ASI, ED etc. should be debating about such issues.. It's a pity most of them are one sided, who do not care for the "very important issues inside our country" !
@@josephdsouza1515 BS!!
@@josephdsouza1515 BS!!
@@josephdsouza1515 Try civilizing the "green boys" without facing "sar tan se juda". Bada aya philosopher gyan pel ne. Chal nikal
@@josephdsouza1515Haven’t you seen the likes of Rajdeep Sardesai with Anti Modi rant? Even such journalists ( S.G. Included) could not deny work done by Modi for the poor. Right from free ration to direct benefit transfer and building homes/toilets to free education to girls, several initiatives have benefitted the poor. Ram mandir was constructed by money donated by people, remember that
Stupid and biased analysis as though the dynastic congress had a right to rule for ever. BJP came up because of its cadres and discipline and now Modi is the vote puller. It has nothing to do with the jailing of RSS people or RG not forming a shaky coalition. Nor can one say that BJP would have returned if elections were not advanced. Mr Shekhar has a soft corner for the first family and is seething within that they are nowhere near power.
Absolutely right!
Dumbo read the history properly first not WhatsApp University lol
Modi is the only wonderful speaker that's all nothing so special
Modi's success story is librandus tears 😭😭😭 takla shekhar 😂😂 (if you are hurt by this comment please read twice 😂😂)
He &people like him are not just taklas from outside but from inside-upside too!!
Ha ha.I liked it.Ifyou are hurt by this comment please read twice
Last sentence 😂😂
2004-14 was A LOST DECADE for the Economy,in 2004, China's Economy was 200% of India's Economy,But by 2014, China's Economy was 600% of India's Economy, China Used Global Economic Boom& Focussed on LPG& Manufacturing in that decade to Rise, Meanwhile, Corrupt UPA was busy in Only promoting IT,Doing Highly Leaky welfare schemes and Doing Huge Corruption Scandals and India reduced it's Gap with China from 2014 to 2024 to 430%, According to IMF projections,It will be 390% in 2028
No 1 blunder not having a UCC to begin with by the so called secular parties.
No 2 blunder vilifying Modi so much that he became Hero No 1 for the Hindus who saw a spate of terrorist attacks and the Congress and gang and its darbaris defending the terrorists.
No 3 Shah Bano
Not necessarily in that order.
Remember the phrase " Wolf in Sheep's clothing" This editorial is for those to understand that phrase ..A class act .!. When you are mature and experienced you can camouflage your hatred ( here for the RSS ) . The whole theme of this editorial is his dislike and HATRED of RSS and Sangh.. Unfortunately . the Indian citizenry is always smarts and can see thru
Shekhar Gupta has problems Narendra Modi coming to power. Hence three mistakes chosen by him are in this context. This is typical case of Shekhar Gupta losing his objectivity due to his hatred of Narendra Modi
Luteyns media
More importantly, he is just an Islam-o-leftist mercenary who sell themselves & near ones to please their foreign masters and their brown slaves led by congress/INDI alliance crooks!!
@@ramalingamsadasivan2835ek baat mere palle nahi padti. Zara explain karna. ABP News aur Aaj Tak pro BJP hai par unki videos par sirf anti BJP comments hote hai aur Mojo Story aur The Print anti BJP hai par inki videos par pro BJP comments hote hai. Aisa kyun🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@mohitrawat5225people are more vocal on enemy grounds to shape a narrative
SG is crying now ,his only and main criteria for considering these blunders is why and how Modiji came to power and still hold on.
Main blunder is at the roots. The beginning. If Nehru embraced private sector and incubated it, it would've created millions of jobs. Manufacturing should have come into the open while government should just regulate it. Defence should have been given better push. We should have been a net exporter and not an import dependant nation. Bringing special laws for muslims and discriminatory ones for Hindus and other faiths was a huge blunder. This is not secularism by any means. If these were done, we'd be a better nation.
Yeah,Infact if Lehru Embraced Free Market Economy, Vajpayee and Modi would have been a Congress Persons and 2004-14 was A LOST DECADE for the Economy,in 2004, China's Economy was 200% of India's Economy,But by 2014, China's Economy was 600% of India's Economy, China Used Global Economic Boom& Focussed on LPG& Manufacturing in that decade to Rise, Meanwhile, Corrupt UPA was busy in Only promoting IT,Doing Highly Leaky welfare schemes and Doing Huge Corruption Scandals and India reduced it's Gap with China from 2014 to 2024 to 430%, According to IMF projections,It will be 390% in 2028
2004-14 was A LOST DECADE for the Economy,in 2004, China's Economy was 200% of India's Economy,But by 2014, China's Economy was 600% of India's Economy, China Used Global Economic Boom& Focussed on LPG& Manufacturing in that decade to Rise, Meanwhile, Corrupt UPA was busy in Only promoting IT,Doing Highly Leaky welfare schemes and Doing Huge Corruption Scandals and India reduced it's Gap with China from 2014 to 2024 to 430%, According to IMF projections,It will be 390% in 2028
Given the exploitation of the country by the Empire till 1947, there was no way Nehru and the leaders of the time would have decided to go the capitalist way. Retrospectively it may look like a foolish decision but just try to picture yourself in those times
@@vishmema leave, bhakts dont have the capacity to imagine India in 1947.
Look, we all criticise Nehru because we have the hindsight of what happened in 80s and 90s. Nehru didn't know that it will turn out like that. In his time, the soviet style of governance was the hottest thing in the world. The Soviets had just defeated the Germans which kinda proved their superiority and the superiority of their planned economy over the hardcore industrialization of the Nazis. You can't blame Nehru for being impressed by the soviet model because if we would have been in that time, we would have been seduced by that too. Also, Nehru had this fear of crony capitalism getting strong which would eventually only lead to communists getting powerful as what was happening in Europe at that time which is why he discouraged industrialists like even his friend JRD Tata. Today we obviously know that that were wrong policies, but we have the hindsight which Nehru didn't had.
For me these are 2
1. Shah banu
2. Nationalisation of banks
3. Mandal
@subramanianavv1989 nationalisation of the banks is the point from where people trusted the banks. most of the people at that time period didn't have any financial literacy. Also farmers didn't easily got loans at least they weren't even cared by private at that time period.
i absolutely Agree with you on 1st and 3rd . 2nd can be debated.
I'd argue that the biggest mistake was Shah Bano. Leaving aside the moral indefensibility of Rajiv's response, the reaction to it helped fan the flames of Hindutva. Moreover, because of it Rajiv failed to properly respond to the situation surrounding Babri Masjid as he didn't want to be seen as too favorable to Muslims
@@josejoseph8725 BS!!
These people don't consider Mandal and Shah banu a blunder. They would prefer more of those.
Let's not kid ourselves, the term "blunder" here means events that lead to rise of BJP, and not blunder from a national perspective.
Despite what political ruling party, The 75 years Three blunders are:
#1 Expose internal political weakness to Chou-en Lai in 1962 leading to 1963 war disaster
#2 not fixing education system to German like polytechnic skills based education system
#3 remove bureaucratic hurdles and promote manufacturing base to improve employment
❤ sensible comment
Wow another expert in the field of growth and development. Internet is full of great experts. I assume u did only polytechnic diploma and is doing some manufacturing business now. If not, then please stop saying things u r not a part of. If u don't put ur life or money behind it, then u r not a stake holder. If u r just in diploma and making a great living or u r in manufacturing business with great value then, ur insight are valuable. U r either economist or a real expert. Which is you ?
2004-14 was A LOST DECADE for the Economy,In 2004,China's Economy was 200% of India's Economy,But by 2014,China's Economy was 600% of India's Economy,China Used Global Economic Boom& Focussed on LPG& Manufacturing in that decade to Rise, Meanwhile, Corrupt UPA was busy in Only promoting IT,Doing Highly Leaky welfare schemes and Doing Huge Corruption Scandals and India reduced it's Gap with China from 2014 to 2024 to 430%, According to IMF projections,It will be 390% in 2028, During 2004-14, Global Growth was 5%, China's was 13% and India's only 6.7%, During 2014-24, Global Growth is only 2%, China's at 5.5% and India's at 6%
that era had gdp growth rate of 8.1 percent. lost decade my ass
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@@ashwinvk4124 😂😂😂lost decade
I rate 90's as more of a lost decade due to political instability, 2000's and 2010's were fine maybe baring last few years of UPA2.
@@ashwinvk4124yeah but also mention we were the Fragile 5 economies 😂😂😂
Nehru's blunders are long and it would have taken several episodes of National Interest to cover it. I understand why SG limited it to just 50 years.
Why did you take the membership then...??😂😂
@@Abhyuday984shatrubodh
Amazing argument, because Congress won elections after emergency, it no more remains a sin.
Such is the wisdom of our top analyst, what about others.
Please don't ask Intelligent questions to our esteemed journalists!
They will get found out for their lack of knowledge, wisdom and their love for one family and party!
This is a gift of the so called educated - beautiful interpretations (or misleading) to fool the gullible.
Disappointed with SG's analysis...he seems to speak as if Indian voters have no mind of their own and can be easily manipulated by those in power. SG, it is time to accept humbly that Congress seized to be a grassroot party and its time was over with 1991 reforms. Nothing to do with Indira's blunders or Rajiv's...
Indian voters have no mind of their own; stop fantasizing about a dream world that doesn't exist. People still vote for caste lines and are still being manipulated. How else can molesters like Brijbhushan Yadav rise to power? How else is the criminalisation in politics still persistent? Who do you think creates all these "waves"?
Go and read about Gramsci and open your eyes to the real world. You think you have an actual choice? Lol, how cute.
Look at the election expense by BJP vs other parties combined
Money doesn’t buy an election, performance does.
> he seems to speak as if Indian voters have no mind of their own and can be easily manipulated by those in power.
He wouldn't be wrong about that would he? "Imagine how dumb the average human is, and then imagine half of them are even dumber." "Good thing about democracy is that everyone gets a vote, Bad thing about democracy is that everyone gets a vote." That would be true for voters all over the world, but we shall talk about india as we are indians here. Our people lack the ability to see beyond the edges of their noses. We must not kid ourselves. This is country where neither capitalism nor communism works, it's where populism thrives.
Voting should not be a right for everyone, but a privilege for those who are truly eligible.
Absolutely! Also, he conveniently chose to cover only last 50 years! Is it because the blunders of the moron, Nehru, is an exhaustive list, Mr.SG? 😀
As a child of the 70s and who followed Indian politics closely since, I can tell you that the biggest blunders by far was Shah Bano and Mandal. The BJP was nowhere in the picture but those two blunders combinedI to transform the BJP from a party of traders to a nationalist movement fusing together anti-sickular voter base
Why Modi is winning?
Because he has heart at the right place. Simple.
Mo D's heart beats only for Muslims who never votes him even after getting benefits that are 2.3 times of what a Hindu beneficiary gets. Mo D is winning due to his first class AIYYARI i.e. masking, dramebaji and video clips.
@@prohind if being poor Justifies Islamization of India, our Muslims will be poor till they become majority. That's why he's helping them to become ex-poor.
unfortunately they will become more radical with prosperity. @@desistarktm7270
true. too much appeasement. even more than all opposition combined like TMC, cong@@prohind
Yes, his heart beats for himself. It is in the right place. Agreed. Like any seasoned politician's heart should be.
Shekar sometimes try to portray Modi & Shah as uneducated, but even if we assume that they are uneducated, if they have right mindset and passion to take our country ahead, they can achieve things that other educated but silent PM couldn't do. e.g. 370, GST, Infrastructure, Water scheme, Jan Dhan Scheme for bank accounts, Digital payments etc.
Also BJP choose more technocratic people like Jaishankar, Gadkari in their ministries rather than unqualified politicians like Lalu or Mamta.
Modi & Shah are indeed formally uneducated but first class AIYAAR i.e. expert in disguising to fool Hindus.
Lalu is qualified
The results PM Modi & BJP gave to the nation are better than all Congress & INDI alliance led "educated" combined!!
Elite never understand that they are the problem sadly.
@@jayandranm1317 qualified to do chara chori?😅😅😅
Not intervening in tibet occupation of china, not taking kashmir fully are forever curses for India
Now a days I listen to SG to understand how badly a senior journalist can analyse due to a biased attitude.
The repeated use of Indira Gandhi and Rajeev Gandhi pics thru the video took me back to Doordarshan days whereyou could see only faces.
So Modi has come to power only because of the blunders done by Indira, Rajeev and Advani else he would still been a karyakarta. What a viewpoint
I am getting laugh after seeing this video. Poor SG. He is trying like anything to favour Congress rule. Indians now are clearly aware of all the circumstances and situations. People are with BJP.
Lost on translation! The print messed up with title on this one! Making it sound like modi coming to power was blunder! Lol, can't hide the inner biases.
Hahaha.. so true! On the point!
The biggest blunder has been to accept the British definition of civilization, secularism, liberalism and perpetrating it after independence. In 1947 we had a choice to reclaim our civilization. But we decided to become Brown Sahibs. This video itself is an indicator of how much we have internalized the standards of the British….
3 greatest blunders are;
1. Reservation
2. Reservation
3. Reservation
1. The misuse of secularism and the attack on Hinduism.
2. Tokenism on uplifting Dalits, but no social changes that makes material impact on their lives
3. Govt control and license raj pre 1991 that kept a whole lot off country poor.
According to me the biggest blunders which are hurting our national interest are
1. Wrong education policies.
2. Reversal of Shah Banoo judgement.
3. Mandal commission
4. Changing our agricultural policies. Thrusting GM seeds
Mr Sekhar sir, I have high respect for your insightful thoughts on many matters relating to Indian polity. But I completely disagree with your observation that Modi rewarded Advani for his blunders. It is like to say, with due respect, that you are born out of your father's incapacity to control himself in intimacy with your mother. I think that you would be angry with my words. Simply because your observation on Advani being rewarded for his blunders and my words about your parents are both wrong and obnoxious. So, let's have decency while commenting on others. I hope you catch my unhappiness.
best comment ever. what an eloquent way of saying "galti se paida ho gaya"
Biggest Ever Political Blunder : Mahatma Gandhi asking Sardar Patel to concede the 1946 Congress elections to Nehru, although Patel had won 13 of the 15 Congress Pradesh Committees.
From WhatsApp University lol 😂😂
@Avinashm7 it is very much in public domain
@@Avinashm7 Fellow earthling, it is the truth but many realised it only due to social media spreading the word. Truth is truth even if all deny
Hahahaa.. the guy invoking "Whatsapp University" got trolled for his lack of knowledge!
But the problem with our country is that people want to believe what they want, rather than analytically researching for themselves!
Had Ashwin done that, he would not have called out the truth as "Whatsapp University" and laughed out loud..
I so wish that people do their research before labelling others!
@tushar9535 1950. Yet, he wrote not to trust China, not to take Kashmir to UN.
Those 2-3 years were vital years for our nascent country and we lost the visionary steering the country from that position.
As for Nehru, he shouldn't have been even near the position of powers.
interesting analysis. I am not sure, how Rajiv could have formed government in 1989 ? BJP would not have supported him. only option would have been a split in Janata Dal, which was perhaps possible. Anyway, India has done and doing much better under PM Modi and everything that happened, happened for good, including the blunders
Like the typical left-liberal journalist obsessed with RSS, you err in giving so much importance to the arrest of RSS cadres by Indira Gandhi’s government. Actually, imposition of emergency should top the list. That experience for my generation, and its memory passed on to the later generations has made every Indian alert against any kind of authoritarian tendencies in our politics. What can be more transformational than this?
It's funny that these leftists or fake liberal have their narratives!! Yet!! If one sees closely enough RSS always helped the nation & it's people!! This was even accepted by Congress & their highest dynasty leaders!!
Yet!! these pseudo liberal media crooks won't call Nehru/congress communal who killed Sikhs & created Islamic Pakistan with their M brothers after robbing Indian lands!!
Mr. Shekar Gupta, you forgot the Shah Banu judgement reversal and the opening of Ayodhaya doors by Rajiv Gandhi. In my mind, that was perhaps the biggest political decision of them all.
He grandfathered BJP's rise through this decision. His son's interview to Arnab was just a continuation of the family's tradition
I am personally very disappointed with SG, clearly he had an agenda with this episode. I am so surprised that he did not even mention the Shah Bano judgment. That was so wrong morally in overturning the Supreme Court judgment. It was just not right from a human values perspective and not standing up for the right thing. That to me was the number 1 trigger that went on to alter the landscape of Indian politics.
According to SG "The rise of BJP and Modi are the biggest blunders of independent India". LoL 😅
They are not the biggest blunders of India but the Indian national Congress 😂
journalists like SG Never learn Never give up dynastic gift and please dynasties all-over India and cannot hide their hatred for Modi and Hindus
Bro.. actually these stooges were close to power structures and enjoyed privileged life that was not available for us peasants- not because of their scholarship but ability to flatter the powerful.
Now that is gone and SG is trying to explain what led to the demise of Congress' close control of power and changes that have put india on the fast track for global leadership!
The biggest blunder is to choose Nehru as prime minister instead of Patel. The congress is a curse to this nation and it should be barred to fight election.
15years of lefruvian people crying is the BEST thing ever happened after independence
Any idea why SG limited his analysis to only last 50 years ? Going back anymore would give him at least 10 humongous blunders by the great Nehru.
All the "intellectual" BS.
Given highly political nature of Islam, wherever muslims are in enough numbers, opposing Force would definitely form may be in form of BJP or Afd(germany) or PVV (netherlands) or Wirathu(Myanmar) or ReformUK(England) or Meloni(Italy) or Le pen ( France).
If RSS was not present it would be in different form. In India this ideology is called hindutva in Netherlands it's directly called anti islam.
Ok let me explain more. Suppose Congress did held muslims accountable what would happen then? Muslims would call congress Anti muslim and play victim card. Another party would have come to claim their votes.( Would be Left). Then slowly and gradually congress would become "anti islam" party. And after some years of terrorist attacks ( common among muslims) Gupta would it was mistake of congress to not be soft with muslims.
Bottomline - Islam creates polarization eventually
Blunders in respect to what ? National interest? Congress’s interest? Or in interest of said prime ministers. In my opinion 3 blunders were 1 choosing socialism after independence 2 emergency and subsequent erosion of constitutional institutions of India (SC,EC President etc.) by Mrs Gandhi 3 Mandal commission report’s adoption by VP Sing. These three decisions altered the entire trajectory of Indian politics.
1. Not having a full population swap with Pakistan. All Muslims in Pakistan & India for Dharmic
2. Alliance with USA over USSR in 1947. 1991 growth is due to America. They were a new empire and would liked to be allies with India for legitimacy
3. Economic ties to the west but like Japan keep Hindu roots but modernised with industrialisation and urbanisation that ends caste
Nehruvian blunders were of Himalayan nature, but you conveniently put in that 50 year bracket and cleverly exonerated him.
One mistake that SG always makes, in 1984 people supported Congress due to death of Indiraji. It was not rejection of BJP or other opposition parties and their ideologies. But in 2014 people rejected Congress, in 2019 people rejected Congress and its ideology and preferred BJP's ideology and in 2024, people are going to wipe out Congress and its ideology and its ecosystem too and majority of the people have whole heartedly accepted the ideology and goal of development and cultural nationalism. People of my generation who used admire USA and felt ashamed of being Indian and apologetic of being Hindu, have started taking pride in identifying themselves as Indians and Hindus. All 80-90 years of effort of Nehru and his dynasty have been defeated and people have started identifying themselves with Ram, Krishna, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Sawarkar, Tilak, Patel and Vivekananda.
The biggest mistake that Congress and Nehru did was undermining and underestimating the common Indian and Hindu and their immense faith in Parmeshwar, Dharm and Karm.
Shekhar Gupta is like a retired cricketer who laments that he got out without scoring far too many times in his batting career. Where was his agility when he went out to bat ??
Which is the worst for whom? For the politicians involved? Their fortunes hardly matter to the common people of this country.
Congress when losing blame Evms.Lawyers when lose their battle at courts blame judiciary is dead and declining SG when he finds people are😢with Modi and finds himself badly mauled in this columns calls Indian voters uneducated illiterate and finally wants to call those who vote for Modi fools of first'order
Read the title this way: 3 blunders by Indira, Rajiv, Vajpayee, Advani that turned into a blessing in disguise for Bharat.
Man, I am fed up! 😢 Nehru, Indira, Rajiv…Nehru, Indira, Rajiv… Sonia, Rahul…. Nehru, Indira, Rajiv…. Nehru, Indira, Rajiv….
I would say, to end the carrier of Pranab Da, by giving him president post was the biggest blunder by Congress. As they thought that he can be the only person who can challenge the Gandhi family
I wonder how the Shah Banu case isn’t considered here. The damage it did to Congress’ equity is unparalleled I think. The Congress choosing to appease minority over doing the right thing still leaves me dumbfounded
i cannot call shekhar as uneducated but the political blunders of india especially cong-i are 1. taking kashmir to un without discussing with people 2. giving away un set in favour of china 3. declaration of emergency and insertion of secularism in non democratic manner during emergency
Indian Constitution was secular before 1976. Removing or adding that word did not change the nature of Constitution which was secular
Wouldnt the indian politics' biggest blunder be Kashmir and Article 370?
The piece should have been named: SG's view on how Modi rose to power!
What he listed here were not mistakes. This piece so clearly shows his disdain towards the current dispensation.
Your angst is well articulated. What to do? Accept the decline of Congress and stop portraying BJP rise as a Congress gift. Indian voters know their politics.
I dont know about political but strategically biggest blunder are
1 Moraji Desai, the worst PM of any nation who sabotaged his own countrymen intelligence operation
2 1962 debacle of not using air force
3 Nehru opposing India permanent membership in UNSC
If these could be undone, India would have been a stronger and potent nation
KS thimayya himself wrote that Indian Air force and army were not strong as Chinese as back as 1959. Using air force would have escalated the war. Obviously the advice of military heads would have been taken
The partition of India was the biggest blunder. Gandhi and Nehru deserves complete blame for it. All of India’s security threat internal or external is directly linked to it.
If not for partition, we would have had countries like Iran and Afghanistan beside us causing us problems.
It was deliberately done. He hated Bharat!!
Partition saved Hindus. If India was not partitioned, it would have been in continuous turmoil, lots of communal clashes etc.
His idea of blunders is from the point of view of the Congress. He does not consider national interest at all. He is a Congress torch bearer.
I was one of them who was jailed during emergency.
What is your age
Guess ?@@kushwanthsai49
I liked the analysis .Having said that, in the analysis, there is an underlying assumption In the whole narrative that these were blunders ...in my view they were historical accidents ..people choose what is good for them always at a given point of time in a democracy and hence we cannot call them blunders from peoples perspective
Coming to accidents perse, i still rank indira gandhis action above Rajiv gandhis ..firstly It eroded peoples confidence in Congress and first time opposition parties of different hues subdued their ideological bases and came together which changed the nature of Indian politics after that
These are not blunders ... this is how democracy works !!
My analysis of past 44 years (born in 1979):
Until 1989 - Congress is the ONLY party
1989 - 1991 - What is GOING ON!?!
1991 - 1996 - Ok, Congress is back in Power and they are doing some new things and I like it but it feels weird
1996 - 1998 - Umm…I guess that was a false alarm.
1999 - 2004 : This is BJP? Umm..it’s not as bad as they made it out to be.
2004 - 2009 : I liked BJP but you guys seem to be singing with the same rhythm.
2009 - 2014 : WHAT IS THIS SCARY RIDE? LET ME OUT!!! PLEASE!!
2014 - Now : Calmness…………..
Wow! To blame Rajiv Gandhi for the “Left parties” like CPM, CPI and the “parties for the backward classes” to align with the untouchable BJP, to give them the foothold in Indian politics !! How afraid of the current establishment the Indian news media has to be ? And when (if ever) will an Indian frontline journalist present a truthful analysis of the Emergency ?
Mandal was the biggest mistake ever..
Biggest political blunder is by 1st CONgress to surrender cum appeasement to Barelvi, Wahabi Islamist extremists after ethnic cleansing on Direct Action Day to dismember Akhand Bharat.
2nd making blunder boy CCP Commine Chi Cha Bandit Nehru as "PM" of dominion state of E.N.D.I.A.
3rd making a Maulana Education Minister not just once but twice.
Bonus: Bumping off Gandhi was delayed by decades, would have got Independence 25 years earlier had it not been for him.
sir, how u can forget punjab militancy starting by congress and kashmir election rigging of 1987 election by congress-national conference
Total chamchagiri by Coupta. Here are the biggest blunders of independent India
1) Appointing Nehru as the PM instead of Patel or Netaji. This blunder is equal to a Billion blunders
2) Not doing a complete population exchange and calling India a Hindu nation.
3) Not getting Kashmir back even after a massive victory in 1971.
All other mistakes like socialism, permit raj, IAS, etc were all a result of blunder 1.
So, in the last 10 years, Modi has not make any mistake!! 😂
You are missing SG’s basic premise that Modi itself is a blunder and he is just calling out the reasons for it. Such a biased opinion!!!
There is no data of his mistakes
Shekhar ji is very smart presenter. By restricting his discourse only to last 50 years, he has cleverly circumvented the biggest political blunder of independent India: that was prime ministership to Nehru ji instead of Sardar Patel ji.
Actually these three should counted as THREE GREAT MOMENTS in making today's Bharat.
Accepted this is an opinion piece but it clearly points out SG's thoughts, biases, sympathies, and consequently where his pen lies.
Was very disappointed with the whole selection as the most blunder-prone times in India's politics from the Nehru era to VP singh's are not even considered and these 3 'blunders' are picked.
His repeated uttering 'legitimizing RSS' as if it were a banned organization involved in criminal or anti-national activities lays bare his claim to be an unbiased journalist that needs to be supported in his fervent claims when asking for subscriptions.
The way all 3 'blunders' are narrated or called blunders in the first place is because they culminated as per SG in Modi becoming the PM.
By far, the biggest political blunder was made by MK Gandhi when he chose, Nehru as the Prime Minister Of India despite the fact Nehru did not get a single Pradesh congress committee vote. This has had the most far reaching consequences on the path independent India.
The second biggest blunder was made by Sardar Patel when he gave away his 12 out of 15 Pradesh congress committee votes to Nehru. By the way, Patel did not have the right to give away his votes to someone else. Gandhi should have recognized this and should not have accepted this vote transfer.
If it had been a AICC vote Nehru would have won hands down. Patel won simply because he was a party man and did backroom work. He worked with other PCC presidents. He was himself a Gujarat PCC president for a long time.
Nehru was way more popular than patel. Patel was popular in Gujarat but Nehru was all India leader.
Also you should know Nehru was elected president of congress in 1951, just a year before election. And 1952 election was won by him by huge majority.
There was no difference between Patel and Nehru over economic policies. Maybe Patel would have better dealt with china but both had agreed to a mixed economy model. Patel was harder on communists.
And plus, Patel died by 1950. Before his death, all decisions were taken jointly by both Nehru and him as Patel was deputy PM.
Sorry Mr SG instead it was the appeasement policy which every political party resorted to which geared up the rest in favour of BJP followed by the all out efforts by Sonia to crush Modi in the Godhra case.
Why are you so jealous against Modiji?
The Biggest Blunder was lifting the ban on RSS by Cong. Govt. in 1950. Also the handling the Mahathma Gandhi assignation case with Kid gloves. Left Savarkar to go free., etc.,
He is counting only those blunders that seemingly caused the raise of BJP. He is not concerned about their other 'blunders' that were detrimental to the country and its citizens.
These are our leader's blunders from a Congress vs BJP point of view. Not from a "hampering development" point of view. This just talks about power struggle.
I actually expected you to say something like doing liberalization in 1991 instead of in the 60s,legitimiing creation of Pak as a theocratic state(remember Pak is just a more extremist version of Israel in terms of its creation) and not building better infrastructure and stronger and more just constitution
Undoubtedly Shekar Gupta’s and Rajdeep Sardesai’s continue to be Congress’s cheer leaders - SG doing it covertly while Rajdeep doing it overtly. There is nothing wrong in it but my only question is why are these elite journalists batting for Congress party, a national party that sheperded freedom movement under the greats like MK Gandhi, Nehru, Vallab Bhai Patel, Maulana Azad etc., is later ruined by Nehru’s daughter first and later by Nehru’s grandson’s family and great grandson ( both of whom are a**h***s). Can Shekar Gupta clarify this question in one of his episodes please
I will tell you what's the biggest political blunder.....trusting an Italian to run our country.....just don't blabber sir.......
SG, the biggest blunder starts with Nehru and ends with Dr MMS. Conveniently forgets the Shah Bhanu case, the appeasement of muslims. Congress reorganising states on linguistic basis was the biggest blunder alongside Protecting Article 370 in Kashmir. Modi is here to stay and come back more strongly in 2024.
Blunders during the last 50 years:
1) Imposition of Emergency: Reason- Common people still laugh when Congress says that Narendra Modi ji is an autocrat.
2) Operation Bluestar: Reason- We alienated our Sikh brothers and we lost Indira Gandhi ji.
3) Sending IPKF to Sri Lanka: Reason - a) We lost hundreds of our soldiers while they killed our Tamil brothers. b) We lost Rajiv Gandhi ji.
Again the cry of fear of failure.
The abundant love for congress , the memory of good times , which he never over come .
Sympathy to SG
Economy rise of all people
Infra growth
Total change over
Are three blunders
My 3 blunders :
1. Imposition of Emergency
2. Overturning Supreme court verdict on Shah Bano by constitutional amendment.
3. Demonizing of BJP by Congress for nearly 20 yrs.
AO, you are still sucking up to GOP
The blunder committed by Rajiv Gandhi has implications stretching beyond generations.
The biggest blunder by Congress is making Rajeev Gandhi as the PM.
The biggest blunder (actually bordering on criminal act) was refusal to allow Sardar Patel to be PM, orchestrated by a pedophile.
Had Patel become PM, both Gandhi and Nehru would have migrated to Pakistan along with the rest of the Hinduphobes
Very interesting! I think many didn't understand the idea behind this episode/article. Shekhar is talking about political blunders which had a political impact, not socio-economic or geopolitical impact.
SG JUST BEATING AROUND THE BUSH
Shekhar Gupta, those 'leaders' are your leaders! Not our leaders. India gained independence on January 22, 2024. Until then, we Indians were living in a transfer-of-power state.
_When talking about the past we often over the role of _*_circumstance_*_ in making those decisions. Leaders are just humans who are driven by incentives like everyone else, and incentives is a function of socio culture order of the times. Often times the decision would be exactly the same if another individual were in their position_
It should have been from 1947.
All 3 would have been Nehru.
1. Gifting Kabo Valley to Myanmar.
2. Nehru's Kashmir policy (Refusal to accept Kashmir's accession to Bharat, unilaterally declaring ceasefire and going to UN, Article 370 etc)
3. Nehru's China policy (Supporting Tibet invasion, gifting Aksai Chin to China and refusal to allow Air Force to support the Army in 1962 war etc)
Refusal to accept accession? Hari Singh was an idiot, he did not sign instrument of accession on 15th august 1947 but wanted to be independent. Had he signed before that date, Indian Army would have been deployed on borders.
He signed stand still agreement instead.
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Hari Singh signed the instrument of accession 3x and it was accepted by Mountbatten on the 3rd occasion, after Pakistan invaded India. Better check up on true history.
The Khan of Kalat also signed the instrument of accession but Nehru rejected it too, following which, Pakistan invaded and made Balochistan a part of Pakistan.
The sufferings on the Tibetans, Baloch and Kashmiris are all the fault of 2 Hinduphobes: Nehru and his mentor, Gandhi.
@@prakashsurendran6285 Ok so I will easily counter all these whatsApp arguments using authentic data and sources.
1.) On 15th July 1946 Maharaja Hari Singh said that Kashmiris 'would work out their own destiny without dictation from any quarter not an integral part of the state'.
2.) In the third week of June 1047 Mountbatten went to Kashmir. In srinagar The viceroy meets PM of Kashmir, Ramchandra Kak and asked him to accede to either dominion. The PM answered defiantly that they wanted to stay independent.
3.) On 15th August 1947 Hari Singh offered to signed A standstill agreement with India and Pakistan. Pakistan signed this but India said it would wait and watch. So that means Kashmir did not accede to India like other hindu rulers did before 15 August 1947.
4.) On 27 September, Nehru wrote a letter to Patel about deteriorating situation in Kashmir and of possibility of Pakistan trying to send infiltrators to kashmir in large numbers. Nehru further wrote to Patel that Hari Singh should make friends with abdullaah (who was pro India at that time)
5.) On 12 October 1947 Deputy PM of kashmir confirms the desire of maharaja to stay independent.
If you want proofs I can send them to you of all these 5 points
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You must have referred to Irfan Habib, Romila Thapar and other Marxist Hinduphobic distorians.
Listen to statements on the above by Dr. Sudanshu Trivedi, which even the Khangress and Ghandy family never disputed. All atrocities of the British and the Mughals were whitewashed by Khangress and the leftists.
Malabar Moplah genocide of Hindus in 1921 was lauded by Gandhi and Congress and the leaders were proclaimed national heroes and given "freedom fighter's pension" until recently.
Don't just send proof, send evidence to back your so-called "proof".
Irfan Habib, Romila Thapar etc were exposed as distorians when they challenged the ASI findings on Ram Janambhumi. They made wild claims without any evidence. All records of the period were in Parsi or Sanskrit, which none of the Marxist distorians knew, but claim to be the ultimate authority.
Mr. SG .. Back to your original Left of centre Ideology again. You smartly excluded the real blunders of Congress in the disguise of calling out only political blunders. Secondly, you counted two of the Indira, and Rajiv actions as blunders just because that led to the legitimisation of RSS & rise of the BJP to the current level...as if the RSS and BJP are some antinational institutions and don't have any place in your so-called pseudo secular India...??
We forget that booth capture wea the order was oder of day.Congress was part of this too.
It's EVM that was a game changer.
SGji mentions 3 epoch-making junctures in Indian politics.. Rajiv Gandhi opening the door.. Indira Gandhi for the inhuman tortures she meted out to common Indians... And Advani with his India Shining campaign
Really interesting National Interest which is provocative as well as profound
Respect SGji❤
1. Emergency
2. Mandal
3. Demolition of Babri
Rajiv Ghandi Shahbano case was also a blunder which took the hindus away from him
Greatest blunder was conducted way back, when newly independent India had not banned the RSS permanently.😇
Shekharji, Because of the blunders committed by Congress rulers, it had effected the fate of Congress in a negative way, not the Nations fortune. The rise of BJP has been good for the nation only as they are much more Nationalistic and have a clear and ambitious targets.
Why only 50 years. why not from 1947
The big elephant in the room sadly missed: the root cause of holding India back all these years since 1947- Gandhi Ji getting Nehru to be the Pm overriding the claims from Sardar Patel ,aristocracy, elitism overtaking Indic and nationalism and competence. That led to the worst dynasty banking on "secularism" and minority vote catching - dividing the country -ending with what we have today. Shekar Ji is of course a pundit , but preoccupied with Modi rise. No surprises there.