Key Highlights
- “Nehru also wrote to the United Nations advocating for China’s permanent membership in the UN Security Council, despite India itself being a claimant to that position,” he said.
- This is hardly the first time that the issue of Nehru favouring China for the UNSC seat has come up.
- The late Arun Jaitley, for instance, had brought this up in 2019 and called India’s first prime minister “the original sinner”.
- Many critics of Nehru have described this as a missed opportunity for India.
- While it is indeed true that Nehru declined feelers from the US in 1950 and the USSR in 1955 to assume permanent membership of the Security Council, one cannot ignore the nature of these proposals and the geopolitical considerations of that time.
