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Never ever in my life I thought I will be able to support congressi view, but anyways - 'samay bada balwan hota hai'
If you actually think any GoI irrespective of which party's in power will consent to 3rd party mediation in Kashmir I've a bridge to sell you.
Hell even a non entity of a PM like Gujral dismissed the then UK Foreign Secretary's repeated offers for mediation in Kashmir calling it a 2nd rate power which he subsequently denied but the message went home. There was no more talk of mediation after that comment.
People here fail to appreciate the unanimity of views cutting across party lines on certain core non negotiable issues besides telling signal from noise .
For all the cursing we've subjected our bureaucracy too beginning with mis spelling the word to begin with , we simply fail to appreciate the simple fact that since 1991-92 we haven't gone in for a single bail out package to the IMF whose regular customers we were before those years.
For perspective compare how many times Paxtan has approached the IMF since 1991. This is also part of our core non negotiables where in both the political part across party lines & the bureaucracy have worked together to shape our economy . There's been no roll back in liberalisation of our economy , the pace of reforms & selective policies of each administration notwithstanding.
I could list several other non negotiables like our pursuit of Atma Nirbharta / MII which is the self reliance policy in all vital spheres birthed by Nehru , nurtured by IG , RG , etc across the decades to be rebranded by the current administration & zealously pursued with mixed outcomes or the fact that we've stood by our Nuclear program both civil & weapon , the DRDO , ISRO etc through thick & thin not for once considering compromising them or shutting them down.
Yes there have been blunders too & some acts of sabotage but by & large events of the past 7 decades bear me out . And this wouldn't have been possible without a committed bureaucracy. For parties come & go , the bureaucracy is a permanent institution. Does that mean they're perfect & need no reforms ? Far from it but that's a topic for another day.