Special: What's holding India back? Its leaders

LEADERSHIP CRISIS: Panellists debate if leadership crisis is keeping India from becoming a global power?

            

Ads by Google

ibnlive.com is on mobile now. Read news, watch videos
be a Citizen Journalist. Log on to m.ibnlive.com NOW!

Related Stories

• YSR's legacy: Leaders need not be good men

• 'Political or economic ideologies, harmful if extremist'

• HT Summit: Blair on India's standing | English humour

Photogallery

Find us on Facebook | Join IBNLive community

Stay ahead with G-Talk Buddy | Click now!

  

The rising lack of vision has kept India’s leaders from realising the country’s ambition to become a world power, a nationwide survey of young Indians revealed.

Rapid economic growth in the last two decades may have seen India catapult to the global arena but the country is yet to wield the influence of a world power. And lack of good leadership is to be blamed for this.

That brings us to the question that was asked on a special show on the findings of the Hindustan Times CNN-IBN Leadership survey: Is the leadership crisis preventing India from becoming a global power?

On the panel of experts to debate the issue were MP and Congress Spokesperson Manish Tewari; President of Lok Satta Party Jayaprakash Narayan; leader of Professionals Party of India Mona Shah; Deputy Executive Editor of Hindustan Times Rajesh Mahapatra.

Leadership crisis in India

Forty-one per cent people have said lack of leadership is holding back India from becoming a world power. What does this say about how the young generation is looking at politicians?

Disagreeing with the findings of the survey, Manish Tewari said, “India is already an emerging global power. If you look at the global equation as it is balanced today, we are part of the 20 nations that is charting the course of this planet. So where is the question of getting stopped from being a global power? We are a part of that multi-polar emerging world.”

Has the moral leadership that Jawaharlal Nehru or Mahatma Gandhi stood for ended in India? Are there no such towering figures to give India the much-needed identity?

“It is not just about towering figures, but about governance and the nation’s vision,” said Jayaprakash Narayan.