Ajit Doval says ‘weak coalitions will be bad for India’ as 2019 Lok Sabha election approaches
Ajit Doval.
National security adviser Ajit Doval, one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most trusted men in the government, said India needs to take hard decisions as “weak coalitions will be bad” for the country. His remarks were aimed at India’s voters who will vote to elect the 17th Lok Sabha in the first half of 2019.
While delivering his lecture on the theme “Dream India 2030 – avoiding the Pitfalls” at the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, on Thursday, Doval said, “India will need a strong, stable and decisive government for the next 10 years, let there be no doubt about it, to achieve our national, political, economic and strategic objectives.” He said, “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.”
He also warned that if India becomes a soft power on account of electing a weak coalition government, then it will have to make compromises, which will, in turn, be detrimental to national interests.”
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