Top 5 Mistakes By The Administration That still hurt us today

TOP 5 MISTAKES BY THE ADMINISTRATION THAT STILL HURT TODAY

The government of India, responsible for all the decisions, has made blunders many a times. These were due to short sightedness, political greed, or anxiety(maybe). Here are top 5 mistakes committed by the leaders of our nation, which still have effects on us.

RIGGING OF 1987 KASHMIR ELECTION

In 1965, when Pakistan launched operation Gibralter against India, to infiltrate in Kashmir and raise a rebellion, it failed terribly, thanks to the support of local people towards India. But now, there is rebellion against India in Kashmir. One of the major reasons for this is the rigging of 1987 Kashmir elections, which came to be a turning point in Kashmir's history.
In 1983, Farukh Abdullah won a huge majority in Assembly elections. After that, he fell out with Indian National Congress and then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi dismissed him the very next year. But when later, Farukh Abdullah agreed to an alliance with the INC, his supporters turned against him. So the elections of 1987 were rigged in favour of Abdullah.
The Kashmiri youth had participated in 1987 elections with great enthusiasm and seriousness and after due thought. But the poll results fired them with anger. They decided to fight violence with violence.
The rest is history.

ASKING FOR UN INTERVENTION OVER KASHMIR ISSUE

Just after independence, Pakistan sent pashtun tribal militias to capture Jammu and Kashmir. The Maharaja of Kashmir signed instrument of accession to India, thus accepting to make Jammu and Kashmir as a part of India. Then Indian troops attacked the militias, safeguarding Kashmiri territories and recapturing parts of Kashmir occupied by tribals. After some time Pakistani troops joined in and now the pace of Indian troops was reduced, but still it was advancing. But on January 1948, the then Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru called up the UN in. It meant that UN(read NATO) would now intervene in the matter. The NATO countries wanted a base in South Asia against Soviet Union, so the decision was in favour of Pakistan (since Pakistan was a US ally and India was non aligned) and the border (called Line of Control) was made where there were frontiers. As a consequence, now, our soldiers have to guard the borders at LOC, which is the toughest terrain, full of mountains, Government has to spend a huge amount of budget every year in J &K, and there is unrest in Kashmir.

CRIPPLING THE R&AW

Research and Analysis wing was setup in 1968 after the failures in intelligence by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as a foreign intelligence agency. Under its first director T.N. Kao, R&AW quickly came to prominence in the global intelligence community, playing a role in major events such as the independence of Bangladesh and the accession of the state of Sikkim to India.
After the emergency, Moraji Desai became the Prime Minister of India. He mistakenly believed that Indira Gandhi used R&AW to silence the opposition during emergency years. Hence, he was filled with hatred towards R&AW and took steps that reduced it capabilities to a great extent.

 Firstly, he reduced the budget of R&AW drastically. Secondly, he revealed the detail's of R&AW network in Pakistan and India's knowledge about its secret nuclear facility in Kahuta to his Paksitani Counterpart General Zia-Ul-Haq. After that, Gen. Zia's government obliterated all of R&AW's network in Pakistan. This destroyed R&AW network in Pakistan and reduced the penetration of Indian intelligence in Pakistan dramatically. Also, Pakistan became a nuclear power, and is now a constant threat to us.

The Kahuta Plant, where Pakistan was secretly running its atomic bomb project

THE SHAH BANO CASE

Shah Bano, a 62 year old Muslim mother of five from Indore, Madhya pradesh was divorced by her husband in 1978. She filled a criminal suit in the Supreme Court of India, in which she won the right to get financial support from her husband. This was a golden opportunity for the government to ban instant triple talaq and moving a step towards the uniform civil code. 

But the Rajiv Gandhi government, in the election year, gave into the pressure of Muslim orthodoxy and Muslim politicians. The parliament reversed the judgement end brought The Muslim Women (protection of rights on divorce) Act. This step deprived Muslim women from their basic rights, they had a constant fear of getting divorced by their husbands. Muslim women had no independence. They had to struggle a lot until on 22 August 2017, instant triple talaq was declared unconstitutional.
NOT TRYING TO SETTLE BORDER ISSUE WITH CHINA

In 1949, India recognized People's Republic of China. In 1950, China invaded and captured Tibet, making itself an immediate neighbor of India from Jammu & Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh. It was feared by some officials that China will attack India too, but Nehru denied their views, stating that any war will result in a World War. Despite being suggested by the officials, Nehru did never discuss the border issues with China. He believed that unless China initiates it, there was no need of discussion. In 1950, Nehru declared from Indian side that McMahon line is the border between India and China.

China was silent on this matter, and Nehru did the blunder by assuming this silence as acceptance. In 1954, India signed the Panchsheel Pact, it was a great opportunity for India to settle the border issue. But nothing was done. In this pact, India accepted Tibet as Chinese territory and surrendered its rights in Tibet. Tibet could have been (but was not) used as a pawn. Assuming border issues to be settled, Nehru was busy in Non-Aligned Movement and trying to act as a bridge between western bloc and Soviet Union. There were no talks regarding border, even when Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai visited New Delhi.

We had no idea about Chinese intentions until  a Chinese newspaper People's Daily reported the construction of road from China to TIbet via Aksai Chin, which was Indian territory. Then China officially declared the McMahon line as illegal. Still, Nehru did not give enough tries to solve this issue, instead, in 1950s, he advocated PRC's membership in the UNSC. all these resulted in a war against China (which China cunningly started during Cuban crisis) and a humiliating defeat. Even now, there are several disputes at the border, all attempts to solve border issue failed and a lot of energy and budget is spent there.