When then Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew called upon his Indian counterpart Indira Gandhi to take bold decisions during his visit to Delhi, the latter declined, maintaining it was not how India could be run, according to Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi.
Speaking at the Entrepreneurship and Rural Development Conclave at the IIT Madras Research Park in Chennai on Thursday, January 18, 2024, Mr. Ravi recalled the former Singapore Prime Minister’s visit to Delhi and also his reported remarks on Indian politics and its economy.
Mr. Ravi said that in a public speech after his meeting with Indira Gandhi during the Emergency, Yew had said India could grow militarily but it shall never be an economic power and that its leaders were not prepared to take bold decisions. “He said, Madam Prime Minister! You are strong. You have the courage to impose emergency in a country with such a diversity and such a huge dimension.”
