NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 -- It is a farce that in modern India, a nation whose leader prides himself on being a Vishwaguru, our own policies are compelling desperate citizens to seek fortunes abroad-only to be met with a degrading deportation process that strips them of dignity. The recent deportation in shackles is not an aberration but a damning indictment of a government that has lost sight of its primary duty of safeguarding its people.

At the crux of this crisis lies a disastrous government-one that blatantly ignores the plights of millions of Indians. Instead of channelling resources toward job creation, the current administration has fattened the pockets of the privileged and their corporate allies. This misguided strategy has left the ...