NEW DELHI: India needs a strong, stable and decisive Government for the next 10 years to achieve its political, economic and strategic objectives, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said on Thursday, asserting that “weak coalitions will be bad” for the country.
Delivering the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture here, he claimed that in the past four years, the country’s “national will” has been aroused.
Democracy is India’s strength, it needs to be preserved, Doval said while speaking on the topic “Dream India 2030 — Avoiding the pitfalls”.
“Weakened democracies can tend to make a country a soft power. India cannot afford to be a soft power for the next few years. It will be compelled to take hard decisions,” the National Security Advisor (NSA) said.
“If it becomes a soft power then you have to make compromises. And when you have to make compromises then your political survival takes precedence over the national interest,” he asserted. (AGENCIES)
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