What will Non Resident Hindus do if Indian is faced with such situation? What do we need to do to garner this kind of clout?
Non resident Hindu here. If push comes to shove, yes we can do quite a few things but there are some limitations.
1. Hindus are still in employee mode. Jews have been traditionally business owners. It limits our abilities.
2. Hindus connection to India is limited. More by India herself. NONE of us want to lose our Indian citizenship but we are forced to lose it. Letting us keep our Indian citizenship will go a long way.
3. We are asked this question a lot: "You have taken an oath of alligiance to our country and you are no longer citizen of India. Why do you act as an advocate of India?". We have no good answer to this.
4. OCI is a revocable privilege and really a long term visa with a somewhat limited working rights. Government has practically removed the pretension "C" part of OCI.
5. Israel gives citizenship to ANY jew. It calls itself jewish homeland and acts as one. India is a secular country by definition and its official foreign policy is NOT that of being a homeland for Hindus.
1 lowers our ability while 2-5 lowers our motivation. NRIs have always been looked with suspicion and Congress went out of the way to alienate them. BJP has been better but still limits the connection.
India should allow dual citizenship with some countries like US/UK/Australia. Also, may be it should perhaps limit dual citizenship to Hindus who have still have immediate family in India.
Lastly, it should promote and make Agniveer rather compulsory for Hindus. Create technical branches which could give Agniveers with technical bent. Like those who want to go in cyber security could become Agniveer in Indian Cyber Offensive capabilities. Allow the best among them to skip JEE etc and join IITs, IIITs and NITs directly after their duty with lots of scholarships. Another branch could be aero-space. This will create next batch of NRIs who are more closely linked with India and can be relied upon. The next entrepreneur should come out of Agniveers.