I recall saying, india needed to step out of G4, sometime last year, it was either when we won the requisite vote for the temporary seat at the UNSC or it was in oct prior to obama's visit. Even then the G4 had no relevance to us, but a burden which scaled down our chances, a deadwood at worst and it has no better utility even today.
India of all the four (G4) is the most well received in the UN, amongst its member states, india of all the four was the only one to have sailed through and made it to the UNSC with a thumping majority like we did last year and none of the other three can ever claim anything parallel and if I am not mistaken one of the G4 member even had a rejection (not sure who or when this happened, but it happened sometime back, the last decade), which speaks volumes of the goodwill G4 as a group did not enjoy, and there remained a stiff resistance to the entry of Germany as well, but still they managed to make it through after a lot of fire fight. Imagine here was a member state which couldn't even make it as a temp member and the other found it hard to make it through and here we are talking about permanent members where the opposition of the vested interests is bound to grow stronger many folds.
For india it is important to garner support from the P5, four have said a yes and are unlikely to retract because of historical reasons and new geopolitical compulsions, china gets left out and they will be brought in at some point in future by the powers that be which have interest in seeing india as a permanent member of UNSC. Over all India's biggest detractors back in the days were the western block, but their opposition due to new evolving geopolitics, economic hardships and realignment of world powers has forced them to shift their stands and it was this which made our support group swell from our traditional support base.
India needed to step out of G4, but before doing that, have a one on one with the other three that it is only by going alone that one of us has a better chance of making it through, and with india having the largest support of all the four, so they all should support india's candidature. Yes, easier said than done, would have required al lot of convincing on part of the diplomats and lot of mid night oils would have been burnt, but still it would have been worth a shot, we would have at least known the outcome of this and how well we could in future position ourselves.
Sitaram yechury has upset the applecart for us. If he claims what he claims is true, there was absolutely no need what so ever to go public about this, but put in a quite word to the PMO and other interest groups. Now if at any given time india decides to back out of the G4, the reason construed by our ever sensationalist media houses will be, we did it under the pressure of china, which will then be played out as a zero-sum game and which when highlighted internationally like that will have its share of repercussions for us in the new found support group and this I doubt would have for now poured water over any exit strategy from the G4, which is what should have been the need of the hour.
Cant these politicians think anything other than some silly point scoring, think in the larger interest of the country and act, can they? Fair enough left has a problem where they see anything that goes against china/Russia or is pro US/west and india is a part of that but playing it out like this is most definitely causing harm to our national interests. This skewed thinking these people have, needs to make way for the larger good of the country. They can in their la-la land of dream world think of some indo-sino alliance formation as they propagate but in the realms of real world that we are confronted with, such an alliance cant even be referred to as a distant dream. The only thing that comes to mind is, if you cant work in the interest of the country, at least do not work against the interest of the country.
