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 s

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