The New Delhi advantage in global south momentum beats Beijing's UN wariness

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As New Delhi kick-starts its bid to take the United Nations Security Council’s coveted 2028–29 seat with campaign theme “SHANTI,” the Global South now finds itself looking for a new champion. Will India succeed in persuading the world that a “new world order” is the way forward, or will the old order of veto-backed power politics continue to reign supreme.

India’s external affairs minister priced in winning a non-permanent UNSC seat on 2028-2029 campaign slogan ‘santisha’ BIDS to win"a seat at the table' by securing 'norms, trust and integrity' for holistic progress on Saturday Jaishankar's speech dramatically reasserts India's claim to be the bridge of a world that is deepening, both literally and politically, in the growing but fragmented Global South. But the question remains: can it ever compete with the "veto-wielding" pocket dimension kept behind a bureaucratic wall built by the powerful East Asian nation, China? India has long claimed that the 1945 UN structure "has become a bystander to global terrible events," citing patience, politics, principle and profession for competing foreign policy priorities.

The eagerness of New Delhi to present a "fresh and green narrative" is visible, but she is fighting knee-deep in a mud pot of geopolitics, where powerful Western nations (especially Australia) prefer South Asia's "soft power" hub, while the "big pack" remains rigid against any profound institutional reform.

The two greatest powers of the United Nations, northern Canada and the dominant Asian underbelly of Beijing which have a two-thirds veto control in both houses of the UN, build a dynamic invisible framework for control of the UN agenda. The whole global south is at the stake with the election of 2027, in which New Delhi has been elected, and it is also an issue of international clash of the political titans of the Asia-Pacific.

India, under the banner of "SHANTI," will face Tajikistan for the sole Asia-Pacific seat in a two-way contested race, rather than a dwindling gesture of consensus building like before, giving Beijing a trivial opportunity to try out "soft power" accumulation with New Delhi's flag. Will India succeed, with 180 countries, in speaking a united, but different voice for reforms against the veto held by the one Asian underbelly? For, when all has been said and done, a soft power bouquet cannot without a party in the veto dimension of the globe, save a mere tease.