Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said “poor governance” was the reason behind uprisings that led to change of governments in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka over the past three-and-a-half years.
Delivering the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture on governance on the occasion of the National Unity Day on Friday (October 31, 2025), Mr. Doval said governance plays a “seminal role” in “nation-building process” and in securing the nation-state.
“The rise and fall of the great empires, monarchies, oligarchies, aristocracies or democracies is actually a history of their governance. In the recent cases of regime change through non-constitutional methods in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and others, these were actually cases of poor governance,” said Mr. Doval while speaking about the changes that swept India’s neighbourhood in the past few years. (The Hindu)
