Choose the correct set of objectives of Nehru's Foreign Policy.

(1) Sovereignty, Secularism, Socialism
(2) Industrialisation, Rapid growth, Harmonious relations with neighbouring countries
(3) Agricultural growth, Planned development, Industrialisation
(4) Preserve hard-earned sovereignty, protect territorial integrity and Rapid Economic Development

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The first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru played a crucial role in setting the national agenda. He was his own foreign minister. Thus both as the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister, he exercised profound influence in the formulation and implementation of India’s foreign policy from 1946 to 1964. The three major objectives of Nehru’s foreign policy were to preserve the hard-earned sovereignty, protect territorial integrity, and promote rapid economic development. Nehru wished to achieve these objectives through the strategy of non-alignment. There were, of course, parties and groups in the country that believed that India should be more friendly with the bloc led by the US because that bloc claimed to be pro-democracy.