By 2040, it may become unlikely for a Hindu to be Prime Minister. By 2050, impossible. Then what is Modi’s Viksit Bharat?

THE IPS MAN STRIKES BACK: RAO’S LETTER THAT RIPS OPEN THE 2047 DREAM…

M NAGESWARA RAO, EX CBI DIRECTOR CHALLENGES SANJEEV SANYAL, QUESTIONS MODI’S VIKSIT BHARAT 2047 AND SOUNDS A DEMOGRAPHIC ALARM.

C Subrahmanyam | Scoop | Hyderabad | September 22, 2025:  Let’s be clear. This is far more than a routine exchange of letters. This is a retired police officer—M. Nageswara Rao, IPS (Retd), Ex CBI Director—hurling a thunderbolt straight at the intellectual fortress of Dr. Sanjeev Sanyal, the influential economist and advisor in the Prime Minister’s circle.

Rao, unarmed but unflinching, has fired off a written broadside that does not flatter, does not tiptoe, and does not dance around the truth. It challenges, it confronts, and it rattles.

VIKSIT BHARAT 2047 – VISION OR DIVERSION?

Rao’s first shot is direct: “Viksit Bharat 2047”—the grand dream of a developed India by the nation’s centenary—looks less like a strategy and more like an escape route.

He calls it a mirage—a shiny slogan that pushes aside the real monsters of today: corruption, crony capitalism, suffocating policies, and the crushing burdens ordinary Indians have borne since 2014.

His charge is sharper still: Even if Prime Minister Modi were to personally witness 2047, it is unlikely that he would be in office at that time to shoulder the responsibility of fulfilling this promise.

In other words, it is a slogan of convenience without accountability.

And when Sanyal brands the judiciary as “the single biggest hurdle” to this dream, Rao raises the red flag. He warns that this echoes Indira Gandhi’s infamous demand for a “committed judiciary”—a dangerous attempt to bend the courts to political will. History, Rao reminds, has already taught India the cost of such arrogance.

THE DEMOGRAPHIC CLOCK IS TICKING

Then Rao unleashes the real shocker—cold numbers, hot impact.

• Hindu population share in 1950: 68%
• By 2015: 06%
• By 2023: 8%, and possibly as low as 60% if one separates those who do not practice Hindu faith but are counted under it.
  

  The above claim of the writer C Subrahmanyam is unclear.
  In his X post M Negeswara Roa wrote:“Second concern about Viksit Bharat 2047 The Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, of which you are a member, released a report titled “Share of Religious Minorities: A Cross-Country Analysis (1950-2015),” which documents a notable 7.82% decline in India’s Hindu population share—from 84.68% in 1950 to 78.06% by 2015. Based on publicly available data, our demographic estimates for 2023 suggest an even more pronounced trend: India’s Hindu population share fell from 84.68% in 1950 to 71.8% in 2023—a significant 12.88% decline over just 73 years. Further, the 71.8% figure may be overstated, as the census data includes people such as Communists, Neo-Buddhists, Ambedkarites, atheists, liberals, and crypto-Christians—who are not Hindus—under the Hindu category. Excluding these groups, the Hindu population share in 2023 likely falls to around 60%. Demographic shifts follow a geometric rather than linear pattern, with populations growing or declining exponentially. With the Hindu population rapidly declining relative to the galloping growth of Muslim and Christian populations, it may become increasingly difficult for a Hindu to become Prime Minister of India after 2040 and potentially impossible after 2050. Without a Hindu-majority India, the country risks becoming a geographic extension of Islamic Pakistan. In other words, by 2047, India’s core identity could be at risk due to these rapid demographic decline of Hindus to less than 50%. Rather than prioritising efforts to address this existential danger looming large, the #PseudoHindutva RSS-BJP-Modi central government is deceiving gullible Hindus with slogans like Viksit Bharat 2047.”
  ~ Editor, Struggle For Hindu Existence.

And his warning is chilling: “By 2040, it may become unlikely for a Hindu to be Prime Minister. By 2050, impossible.”

This is not casual speculation—it is Rao’s way of sounding the alarm that India’s civilisational core is at stake. He accuses the government of distracting Hindus with slogans like Viksit Bharat 2047 instead of confronting this demographic earthquake.

COURTS NEED MORE THAN LAWYERS

Rao’s third point is not just criticism, but prescription. Picking up Sanyal’s own query on judicial monopolies, he argues: why should courts belong only to lawyers?

He calls for multi-disciplinary constitutional courts—with economists, civil servants, police officers, chartered accountants, and taxation experts sitting alongside legal minds. Rao invokes the guild system of ancient India, where specialists resolved disputes quickly and fairly.

To make this happen, he says, Parliament must amend Articles 124(3), 217(2), and 233(2) of the Constitution, and form a high-powered committee to lay out a blueprint for reform.

This is not an idle suggestion—it is a bold vision for reshaping Indian justice.

THE SHOWDOWN OF IDEAS

Make no mistake. This is more than a letter. It is a duel of worldviews.

On one side, Dr. Sanjeev Sanyal—the economist in the Prime Minister’s circle, painting visions of a shining India. On the other, M. Nageswara Rao—the retired policeman, tearing into those visions with demographic warnings and constitutional cautions.

And Rao’s questions are explosive:

• Is Viksit Bharat 2047 a genuine dream, or a convenient diversion?
• Will India once again seek to bend the judiciary for political expediency?
• Is the Hindu majority—the very backbone of India’s civilisation—slipping away before our eyes?
• Should the courts of tomorrow belong only to lawyers, or to India’s brightest across fields?

THE FINAL WORD

This is what SCOOP would call the “Letter That Shook the Establishment.” A policeman turned pamphleteer, Rao has stripped the varnish off official rhetoric and hurled a mirror before the nation.

The government may dismiss it. Sanyal may rebut it. The saffron drumbeat may drown it. But the fact remains: Rao’s letter has cracked open a debate that goes to the very marrow of India’s survival and identity.
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Courtesy: Scoop Hyderabad.