Nehru model failed India, course correction underway since 2014: S Jaishankar

A 'Nehru development model', inevitably produced a 'Nehru foreign policy' and "we seek to correct that abroad", just as efforts being made to "reform" the consequences of the model at home, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday. In a virtual address at the launch of the book 'The Nehru Development Model' by former NITI Aayog vice chairman Arvind Panagariya, he also said the author suggests that former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's choices set India on a "deterministic path". "The model and its accompanying narrative permeated our politics, the bureaucracy, of course, the planning system, the judiciary, the public space, including the media, and most of all teaching," the Union minister said. The paradox, however, is that for more than three decades now, there's actually been a "national consensus that this development model eventually failed the country", he said.