http://indianewsdiary.com/?p=17922 The NDA government plans to
rewrite India’s Neo-South Asian Policy, and the intent behind seems for a
complete transformation of South Asia into a peace and prosperous region. While
challenges are many, opportunities are abundant. The new government will seek to explore it
from the very platform of its swearing-in-venue and likely do some
complementary pronouncements.
The BJP-led NDA government on the first day of its formal takeover
is going to pronounce its new South Asian outlooks from the
swearing-in-ceremony podium. The world is now much enthusiastically and resiliently
observing this. How the new government will come out with its regional outlook
is now the most important speculation for them. The big players including the
USA, China must be very keenly detecting this development side by side. While the invitation of the South Asian
leaders is the highly discussed around, their unprecedented desire for
engagement with India have made the adversaries rather chocking.
The new-claimant of New Delhi has said to have done the sufficient
groundwork of the said celebration. While, the head of the governments in the
neighbours have been reverently summoned, no stratagem has been left to easy
the buoyant leaders to witness this majestic celebration the largest democracy
going to showcase.
The Modi-led NDA government is all set to reaching its South Asian
Neighbours from the venue of swearing ceremony itself, the moment its formal
taking of office is over. In response to the overwhelming response of the
leaders from neighbourhood, the new PM is said to be having his plan to air a
few parting delights these leaders can carry when they back to their
countries. While the new ruling party is
lobbying for a good reciprocation to the visiting head of governments South
Asian countries, the new PM of India seeks to avoid a mismanagement to this
exceptional germinal. Overall, the new
government is in no mood to surpass this chance, and waiting upbeat the moment
for a face-to-face communication
recovery with the leaders from neighbours.
The new Indian
government will well orchestrate the point that there is nothing unusual behind
the unprecedented interests shown by the regional leadership, and there has
been no secret diplomatic-workout behind inviting the regional leaders to the
platform of its sworn in ceremony. These
developments were obvious to happen when the regional leadership could
visualise their own progress in the new Indian leadership of a massive mandate
in pocket.
Though
the new government is still judged with care and caution in the neighbourhood,
leadership at New Delhi must be preparing to instil trust and confidence in
them. For that reason, the new leadership have planned to showcase its
unprecedented commitments with promises for a handful contribution towards the
regional progress.
The new government is all set to assert India’s undeniable stake
in South Asian regional peace and progress.
As the leaders from neighbours are about to approach India’s support to
their growth, the new government is all set to orchestrate certain
people-centric priorities, and will persuade these leaders to take this
unprecedented political development into the advantage of their rise. The new
leadership is all set to commit its support to the neighbours to the best level
of their needs so that nothing should impede their development.
Similarly,
it is all set to communicate of the
decisive leadership the new government is to demonstrate. On the side line
of the pronouncement of its South Asian priorities, the new government may
indicate its hard and tough approach
unlike the previous regime. Accordingly, it may pronounce its resolve to be
vigilant observer of various developments around its neighbourhood. It needs to
be made clear that any policy of Indian containment needs will be dealt with
iron-hand, while the desire of engagement will be equally reciprocated.
India
will make it clear that the old policy of Indian containment no more match to
the new situation. Therefore, any effort of containment of India’s take-on will
hardly matter. So the best natural option left before the leaders of the
neighbours is only to care for a strong-knot relationship with India, so that
at any given situation, India’s rapid socio-economic transformation may come to
their recuperation. The leaders from the neighbours must be convinced that
their countries preoccupied with weak-state- capacity, insecurity and
vulnerability should no more derecognise India’s centrality to South Asian
regional peace, stability and security at their own peril.
The
respective leaders must be astutely persuaded that the role and intention of
China in the region has been almost divisive. Chinese plan of ‘Indian
encirclement’ is in fact a strategy of South Asian encirclement and
containment. Therefore, their strategic alliance with China is actually appears
to be suicidal, as its distant outcome will not only weaken India, but also
belittle their sovereignty. Therefore,
it becomes equally important for all the South Asian countries to ensure the
stopover of Chinese intrusion, so that its policy of South Asian containment is
effectually contained. The leadership
must be convinced that no way the China’s hegemonic, unilateralism and
expansionist strategy going to complement their interests, whereas the plural
and tolerant democracy India will not impede their progress and prosperity.
Now
the time has come for India to show a convincing commitment that it is serious
to rework on the fissured regional integration, and for so, the need for a
cohesive delimitation approach to conflicts at various fronts becomes
necessary. Thus, before the good restart
for a peaceful, progressive and prosperous South Asia, the foremost
responsibility before the regional leaders is to ensure the minimisation of the
enduring conflicts, which yield much insecurity in the region. For the larger
regional interests, the leaders from the neighbours must be persuaded to shed
the ‘age old identity and ethnic centric politics’ and understand the need of
regional peace sooner than never.
South
Asian region has been a long sufferer of terrorism, and placed on the top list
of “victim of global terrorism” index. The world has become nearly unfastened
that how this serious menace can be eradicated from this region. While the
leadership seems to be realising, they must be well persuaded that terrorism in
South Asia is hard to eradicate unless the regional leadership resolve to fight
it unitedly. At the same spell India may
clear its resolve to fight terrorism along with its behind-motivation at length
and breadth, it will hardly spare any perpetrator of terrorism irrespective of
its state or non-state affiliation.
“Will India pronounce the importance of the
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and underline it
necessity for regional peace and progress’, is still not clear. But it is
apparently clear that the pro-development-oriented fresh-political-leadership
in India perceive the requirement of a regional political mechanics to foster
multilateral cooperation and interaction in region without which its own
development may also back track. India understands that unless the countries of
South Asia do not prosper, the dream for peace and prosperity in the region
will not suffice. And this realisation
makes the present leadership feel responsible to bring all the countries back
on track.
To
conclude, it is now the duty of India to win over the heart and mind of its
South Asian neighbours and the leaders at the outset. India must convince the
South Asian leadership that while their progress and peace shall be its
priority, however, it will not access their progress from the prism of its own
strategic parameters, rather it will ever seek to incessantly involve itself
till the regional progress is seen and heard everywhere it the world. India must dutifully convince the neighbours
that being the biggest country in South Asia the stake of its responsibility is
naturally bigger, and its role in fostering peace and progress in the region
should not be seen with suspicion and contained by aligning with the adverse
player, rather need to be rejoiced.
(This
article is all about a scholarly explanation of the perspective expectations.
This should not be equated with exact official pronouncement).
