NSA Ajit Doval | Picture Credit score: ANI
Nationwide Safety Advisor Ajit Doval stated “poor governance” was the rationale behind uprisings that led to vary of governments in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka over the previous three-and-a-half years.
Delivering the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture on governance on the event of the Nationwide Unity Day on Friday (October 31, 2025), Mr. Doval stated governance performs a “seminal position” in “nation-building course of” and in securing the nation-state.
“The rise and fall of the nice empires, monarchies, oligarchies, aristocracies or democracies is definitely a historical past of their governance. Within the latest circumstances of regime change by non-constitutional strategies in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and others, these had been truly circumstances of poor governance,” stated Mr. Doval whereas talking in regards to the adjustments that swept India’s neighborhood previously few years.
His feedback in regards to the neighborhood got here quickly after former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina urged her supporters in Awami League to boycott the February 2026 election in Bangladesh that’s presently being run by an interim authorities led by Nobel laureate Mohammed Yunus.
“I imagine governance performs a seminal position within the nation-building course of, in addition to in securing a nation and serving to it obtain its objectives and aspirations,” stated Mr. Doval drawing examples from the rise and fall of empires due to inner weaknesses and inept governance.
Printed – October 31, 2025 11:45 pm IST