INDIA AIMS FOR 40% GLOBAL WORKFORCE: DOVAL

Doval said India's current workforce comprises 495 million

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National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval said on Saturday that India would not have been partitioned if Subhas Chandra Bose had been the leader at the time of the country’s independence. British decided to leave India in a hurry because of what Bose had done and India would have been militarily better prepared for 1962’s Sino-Indian War if the leadership shared Bose’s commitment to building a strong army.

Delivering the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Memorial Lecture organised by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham), Doval bemoaned that history had been “unkind” to Bose.

Doval’s comments are likely to trigger a debate, especially his claim that former British prime minister Clement Attle told the acting governor of West Bengal in 1956 how Britain gave India its independence as it was scared that the spark Bose had lit could lead to an uprising, while Mahatma Gandhi was not as important an influence on the events at the time.