India cannot compete with China with a defense budget of $70B when Chinese are spending $270-wo0B. That is because their overall central gov budget is close to $3 trillion. Our budget is close to just $600 billion central government. At 1/5th of Chinese government budget, our hands are tied in all areas - from science and technology to infrastructure to defense spending. If we truly want to compete with China, we have no option but to become a $10 trillion + economy with a central gov budget of at least $2 trillion. This should give us money to do a lot of grand R&D and cutting edge defense technology. The sad thing is even IITs, IISCs, and other to; institutes have poor infrastructure and even poorer R&D and lab facilities. India’s private company R&D in defense is just getting there but the technology being produced is basic and nothing even remotely world beating. We have to visits this topic in 2030 and see where we are. India needs a 10-20 year plan where no matter which party comes to power, they all must constitutionally commit to making India a $10 trillion economy through massive investments and growth. Our constitution needs to be effectively rewritten to eliminate freebie culture, merit-based advancement of society, a large focus on science and technology, complete elimination of criminals from politics etc. Modi and BJP have a lot of work to do to set india up for the next 10-20 years. There are criminals waiting to take over governance and derail India’s progress and if this government does not institutionalize systems and make it difficult ffor criminal political parties to take India in a different direction, then should BJP lose India’s growth will be derailed posing serious national security risks and loss of territory to China. BJP must take such institutionalization seriously and not blindly believe that it will be in power every time to secure India’s interests. Many constitutional amendments must be pushed through to secure the country;s long term interests especially in funding science and technology R&D, increasing world-class science talent, and building civil and defense infrastructure.