While Indian scholars, journalists, politicians and others are trying hard to make a case for India's inclusion in the UNSC it would be illuminating to understand India's position on the UN charter of human rights. Though the talking heads of the Indian media make a big song and dance about the Indian state's commitment to all manner of progressive concepts secularism, liberalism, human rights, women's emancipation and so on, this is actually a lot of hot air. The Indian government does not believe in the equality of its citizens irrespective of religion, class, caste, sex and colour, which is the basic principle of all modern concepts of governance. The Indian government believes that though all Indians are equal some Indians are more equal than the rest. The Indian government  has thereore granted the Muslim citizens power and privileges that it denies to other citizens Hindus, Christians, Sikhs etc.  In other words the Indian government has for the last more than sixty years been following an openly discriminatory policy towards its own citizens. This is a blatant violation of the UN charter and any government that institutes such policies has no business to be in the UNSC. 
 
But that is not all. There is more institutionalised dicrimination against women in India that anywhere else in the civilzed world.  India allows discriminatory laws and practices by its Muslim citizens against their women. Muslim women are denied equality with men that the Indian Constitution gaurantees. It should be clear therefore that India allows institutionalised discriminatory practices against its citizens. A state that does not believe in the equality of citizens and allows gender discrimination is not fit to occupy a place a place in the UN Security Council. 

The powers that be at the UN should consider India's brazen violation of the UN charter and summarily reject India's claims to permanent membership of the UN Security Council.