It doesn't matter who debated what, how is that related to actual outcomes on the ground? Can someone arguing something change the reality and facts? Numbers literally tell you that India is not in that bracket.
Their gap with China, in absolute terms, is widening, and not narrowing, despite China already being in a totally different stage of development - a moderately developed country compared to India that picked way more of the low-hanging fruits that India could use, but it isn't.
India's economic growth is much slower than China's at a comparative stage in its development.
In this stage of development, India is currently finishing, China grew 4 times faster relatively as I posted on the previous page.
In the next five years, China will deliver over twice as much incremental growth per year as India, even if India's relative GDP growth is twice that of China.
Whereas China, Japan, South Korea, and others had pretty similar rates of growth in comparative stages of development, or China had higher.
How long it took India and China to grow their GDP from $1 trillion to $3 trillion, for example? China: 8 years (1998-2006) India: 15 years (2006-2021).
The gap is widening, and there is very little chance for India to develop, I feel that you should go over this thread, you have everything explained there:
Even Vietnam can't match China's speed of growth in comparative periods, not to mention India, lol...