Although India is struggling with a lot of issues because of its rapidly increasing population and other issues like poverty and so on , it is still a very powerful nation. It is the 4th most powerful nation follwing US, Russia and china respectively. And I think yes, it does have enough. regional power and deserves this status
ROFL.... Do you think that India is more powerful than countries such as Japan, Germany, Italy, France, United Kingdom, South Korea, Canada, Australia.etc? I don't think so. Out of the Indian population of some 1,250 million, just around 40 million are productive (i.e, paying income tax to the government). In short, India is a country where 40 million people subsidize the remaining 1,210 million. This model won't be able to sustain for long.