Is world concern about the Indian elections?

Largest democracy in the world is going to start the process of election in next couple of days. It is a month long process. Many of us think that India has become very important player in the world politics because of over 8% GDP growth in last 10 years or so. We have become part of many Gs (G20, G8 and many other G). We are apparently playing important role in Asian and other Asian groups. People also talk about BRIC countries. But the important question is are we really important in the world politics? Is the world worried or concerned or even bothered about the election in the India or the party that will lead the coalition after the election? It seems that the answer is NO.

The answer to this debate lies in the economic and foreign policies after the election. We are a very matured democracy. Time and again we have proved that the only way our chaotic country be run is the democratic manner. It is not only the last 60 years but also before that. Most of the kings or emperor who became very successful or famous are those who cared about the people's opinion. Be it Akbar or Ashok. Anyone who showed arrogance to the public was thrown out sooner than later. So the world has nothing to worry about this issue.

India constitute a single digit of the world economy and the international trade. We have very large population but we are self sufficient in most of the basic commodities so we can not think of exercising pressure in the international trade. We are not like America that consumes around 25% of the world's oil production and it is also the biggest importer. So the USA has vested interest in twisting the arms to get cheap oil. Thus the oil producing countries get concerned about USA. We do not have any such advantage. We are still not too materialistic and do not consume cheap cloths or electrical equipments or dolls made in china. At the same time we do not export anything of major importance to the world. So from the economic point of view it does not matter which party leads the next government. It will continue to run.

Foreign policy is something that the world can be bothered about to some extent. But none of the party manifesto talks much about foreign policy. Even if they talk it is something very ambiguous and superficial. In fact, next government can not change much about the foreign policy. Next government will continue to blame Pakistan for all the bomb blast in the country. We will continue to buy defence equipments from America, submarines from Russia, intelligence equipments from Israel and Nuclear plants from France. So most of the major economies will be happy to get some money from India. It can be just reshuffling number of contracts from one country to another but they will receive some contracts and money and jobs in their countries.

Some countries are concerned about the terrorism and hatred against the Christians (mind you not minorities because Muslims and Parsis or Sikhs are not in their radar) but it is an issue that will not require extra or different effort from the world leaders. Whichever party come, it will remain same.

Since all the parties have same attitude of being in power any means rather than thinking on big issues world in not much concerned. On top of India does not have system of replacing all the top bureaucrat es (many of them have fixed term by constitution) as a new party comes into power so things keep moving in the same direction. It is only the pace of the progress on different issues increase or decreases with change in the party.

Nothing to worry about for the world in Indian election. Leave your opinions here.