India had this golden offer:

Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin had offered the then PM Nehru that India must acquire a permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council in 1955. Nehru’s sister Vijaya Laxmi Pandit who held important diplomatic positions during his term, was India’s ambassador to the United States in 1950. She had also informed him about the intentions of the US to unseat China as a permanent member and replace India with it. Nehru had rejected this proposal as according to his unjustified foreign policy: This replacement can exacerbate their tense relations with People’s Republic of China. China is more deserving to this permanent seat. China was about to send a full delegation of UN General Assembly for the crisis committee and their failure to get in there might cause Soviet Union’s exit and break up of United Nations post which the world may plunge into another war. This move was also influenced by India’s complicated relations with the US as irrespective of it’s non-aligned nature, India is said to have inclined towards the Soviet Union, loathed by the United States. Nehru’s narrative claimed that UN must be sound representation of the world and China deserved a greater place as it’s international socialisation and integration would prevent future worldwide mayhem. Whether communist or not, China addresses a greater international post-war world. His views were primarily based on a radical ideology with China which along with his leadership failed in the 1962 Indo-China war. Today, China is the most difficult bone of contention in India’s escalation to the permanent membership. Their strategies to contain our development is supplemented with exclusive economic, military and political partnership they have established with Pakistan. [caption id="attachment_10530" align="aligncenter" width="811"] E.A. Mins/Dec, 56, A22a(I) A close-up of the Prime Minister Shri Jawaharlal Nehru in a thoughtful pose, as he addressed the United Nations Diplomats in the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New York during his visit to the U.S.A. I December 1956.[/caption]