“The country cannot improve until its politicians do.” In this excerpt of a 2013 speech, BJP founding member Jaswant Singh held politicians accountable for the state of affairs in India back then. He died on Sunday following a long spell of illness.
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00:00If today is the day of reckoning, then today's politics is the day of reckoning.
00:08The mistakes made in international politics will take generations to rectify.
00:21The relations with China and Pakistan that have kept us standing,
00:29one of the consequences of this is the wrong policies of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru that India is playing today.
00:40I don't want to elaborate on this anymore.
00:43This in itself becomes a very big topic.
00:48This was not complete.
00:50This was not complete.
00:52The way the first NTT was increased with the IPKF,
00:58then the Indian army was fought with the same NTT,
01:03I don't know how this can be called a successful policy.
01:09When the IPKF army returns, no one is ready to welcome them in Tamil Nadu.
01:20So this in itself is not a successful policy.
01:26The Maoists had two fronts, China and Pakistan.
01:35We have made three fronts.
01:37There is another question with this.
01:40Why did all this happen?
01:42Who is responsible?
01:45I am from the same community.
01:48But for my community, I would like to say that if today is the day of reckoning,
01:56then today's politics is the day of reckoning.
02:00The first blame has to be assigned to the politician of today
02:06who has brought the country to this impasse.
02:10Whether it is the financial crisis, the internal crisis,
02:15the social crisis, or the international crisis.
02:20The country does not bring all these crises on its own.
02:26There is a lack of governance.
02:29And until there is a lack of governance, all this will not be right.
02:33And who has the governance?
02:36It is in the hands of the politicians.
02:38Until the politicians do not improve,
02:41they will not be aware of the security of the country.
02:45They will never think about the security of the country.
02:50They will limit their thinking only until the next election.
02:55And if this continues,
02:58then the country that we are seeing today, 60 years later,
03:03I cannot lie to you.
03:06The situation will improve.
03:08It cannot improve like this.