Dhaka, Nov. 1 -- India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has said changes of government in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka over the past three and a half years stemmed from "poor governance", according to The Hindu.

On Friday, he described governance as the central pillar of nation-building and stability.

Delivering the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture on governance on India's National Unity Day, Doval was quoted by the newspaper as saying: "The rise and fall of great empires, monarchies, oligarchies, aristocracies, or democracies is actually a history of their governance."

He added, "In the recent cases of regime change through non-constitutional means in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and others, these were all rooted in poor govern...