Why India cannot be a great power

Basically its lack of political will. One will recollect that in 1948 China did not even manufacture a bicycle while India was much advanced with steel plant, aircraft, and a car factory. China has gone ahead and even launched a spaceman in orbit while Indian are still twiddling their thumbs. China has copied most Russian planes and they are none the worse for it. India, unfortunately, did not build up its military-economic complex and talked of peace leaving India way behind in great power status. The situation is that India can not even sort out Pakistan which is 1/5th the size of India. Neglect of the military industry has serious ramifications as India is dependent on foreign suppliers for its planes and guns. it cannot fight a sustained war as it produces almost zero military equipment. How India reached this sorry state is because of the Indian political leadership. Now to catch up to China is almost like a pipe dream and in the bargain gone forever is great power status which rests on military-economic- industrial capability.