Question

State your opinion.

Explain India's role in non-alignment.

Answer 1

1. After the Second World War, without joining either Soviet Russia’s allied group or America’s allied group, India adopted the policy of development by its own efforts and to shape its own strategies leading towards peace. This policy is known as ‘NAM – Non-Aligned Movement’.
2. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr. Sukarno (Indonesia), Nkrumah (Ghana), Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt) and Marshal Tito (Yugoslavia) were the architects of the concept of NAM.
3. The nations, which adopts an independent foreign policy based on the concept of peaceful coexistence, supports other nations in their independence struggle and does not involve themselves in the military agreements or bilateral treaties with the superpowers is known as ‘NonAligned Nations’.
4. Prime Minister of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri attended this conference. The thrust of the conference was on preparing global awareness against forming groups of nations based on military concerns and establishment of military bases in foreign countries.
5. The conference of non-aligned nations held at New Delhi was the 7th one.
6. India’s Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi in her speech in this conference emphasised on ‘Freedom, Development, Disarmament and Peace’.
7. The main goal of the non-aligned movement was, progress in the development of member nations.