Many visionaries and politicians have promised about India becoming a developed nation by the year 2020, and just like any other election promise it will be a dream for many Indians who believed. The definition of being a developed nation varies from person to person and there is no universal understanding as to what it means. In a dynamic world, the already developed nations are progressing and the developing nations have to move faster to come closer the levels of developed nations. If a nation can protect its citizens from External and internal disturbances and including during/after natural calamities it can be called a developed nation. The disturbances can be financial, food, employment, security lapses, health etc which are required for the peaceful existence of the citizens of a community.By this definition there is no one nation that can be called developed, but the achievement levels are different and thus a scale be obtained.
The foremost requirement is the security of the nations from enemies. The biggest threat India fails in securing citizens is from the attacks of extremists. We have naxals, hindu terrorists(whose existence is yet to be proved in courts of law, but already certified by media), islamic terrorists, christian evangelists whose works
are very dubious after the incident in Orissa. Learning from Sri Lanka and Andhra Pradesh the solution of making the citizens secure is to eliminate the extremism of all kinds. Lanka eliminated its LTTE menace, Andhra wiped out its naxal menace. But the religious extremism still persists in our country which the politicians are fanning so suit their needs. The rebels with weapons are wandering in the near forgotten parts of the country-NorthEast, the maoists in Bengal, Chattisgarh, Separatists of kashmir etc have to eliminated with the use of army, para military forces or by any other means. When talks fail, actions will deliver the results and also proves to other elements to think in correct lines.
What if Sardar Patel sat and talked to 500 princely states present in India after Independence, What if Sardar Patel went to talks with the Nizams of Hyderabad. What if Nehru asked Patel to deal with the Kashmiri Prince. The will of leaders is more important because the common people are busy with thier lifes which is made more difficult with each passing year. There is always a lack of time for other activities than for the important family issues. The failure of Nehru is unifying Kashmir into the Indian union is his sadistic gift to nation and to make personal wealth. UNLESS WE SOLVE THIS INTERNAL SECURITY ISSUE TAKING THE HARD-LINE APPROACH, the problem is never going to get solve. Talks may help in the short term, but the people will go back to their old ways quickly.
The troublesome border infiltration from the east have to tackled immediately. The migrant muslims from Bangladesh have changed the demographics of the region. It is a tragedy that the political parties want to make these illegal migrants into vote blocs and giving them all facilities which the common citizen is not able to get. Recently some Bangladeshi people were caught having AADAR cards and how many more are still left uncaught is only a wild guess. The migrants need not be allowed with any amount of sympathy because we in Indian are already having enough peole who are not fed, without jobs. We provide aid to Bangaldesh and take their illegal migrants and put the burden on the tax payers. This is the most foolish act of the politicians. THE BORDERS WITH BANGLADESH HAS TO BE SEALED, AND MIGRANTS BE DEPORTED WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT.
On the West we have the most lovable neighbour who pledged to wage a 1000year jihad on us and we take him to dinners at TajMahal, play cricet, have music competition, do business. All this is being in the hope that the neighbour gets selective amnesia and forgets about the jihad declared on us. But the truth is that the neighbour has got amnesia but he forgets the good actions that we have been making to him. Many loyalists of Pakistan who still reside in India are the islamic extremists creating some trouble on the behest of the neighbours. Their only idea is to disrupt the internal peace. The political leaders have failed the people of this nation disastrously by repeatedly engaging with the neighbour and showing mercy. When the army marched into the terriority and planned to capture their city, to keep the internal loyalists happy, they asked the army to come back. All for the purpose of retaining power and making vote blocs. With the weapons available with both sides on any day, India is more powerful than Pakistan and very few nations can dare to support Pakistan since it harbors terriorists.
In the event of India-Pak war, many nations in their interests will support India, becasue many of the developed nations, and china are facing islamic extremism. The bluff of pakistan to use nuclear weapon will be like spitting into the sky only to fall into its face. Pakistan is being continuously bomarbed by the American Drones in the name of War on terror. The loses America incurred is insignificant to the loses that India has suffered. The killing of the Indian soldiers, frequent ceasefire violations, infiltration bids etc have to be given a very strong reply, even it means a FULL SCALE WAR WITH PAKISTAN and solve the problem for once. The international borders can be redrawn. With the new political leadership of China having realized their faults of going from their roots in spiritualism, we should expect them support India's cause, for India-China Unity can change the world politics. This unity is a very distant dream, but war with pakistan is the immediate requirement for the national security. Instead of hoping Pakistan will Change, it will be in the interests of India to make a Peace with Chine, either aggressively or with talks.
The accountability of the police is the last piece misssing to the complete the national security. The police has to be made independent of the political interference. The Election commission is the shining example of how a independent agency can work for the good of the nation. But the Chairman of the independent agency should be high integrity. Instead of the political leaders using the police as their pet thugs, if the police are left out, it is a only a matter of time before we can see improvements in the performance. Also the accountability of the police and transparency has to be improved. The much talked about police reforms and judicial reforms have to be implemented. Justice system which has around 3crore cases pending can never be suited to the nation which aspired to be a developed nation, where criminals take oaths as ministers from jails and jailed ministers get chest pains.
With these small actions, the national security will be improved - both internal and external. with peace the investments will flow into the nation, which are actually not required, but have become essential part of globalization. This takes us a step towards Bharat 2020.