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India was offered a permanent seat on the council 55 years ago, in 1955. But that offer, made by the United States and the Soviet Union, was declined by India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru said the seat should be given to China instead.
Obama supports adding India as a permanent member of U.N. Security Council
Jawaharlal Nehru "declined a United States offer" to India to "take the permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council" around 1953. Nehru declined the offer about the same time as he turned down "with scorn" John Foster Dulles' support for an Indian Monroe Doctrine. Nehru suggested that the United Nations Security Council seat held by Taiwan be offered to Beijing instead.
United Nations Security Council at AllExperts
Not that I expect anyone to accept this and let the issue rest..... Even if Nehru, Mao, Eisenhower and Khrushchev were to rise from the grave and tell the story, some people will still say it is an urban legend.