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As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
The one genuine reformer the party has is Shri P. Chidambaram. It might wish to task him to start work on a serious blueprint for revival of the economy. If voted back to power at the head of a very large group of regional parties, the Congress will have to move beyond the welfarism of the NAC. Someone like Ms Mamata Banerjee, once seen as being to the left of the Left, is now taking prudent management of state finances and attracting investment to Bengal very seriously. There is growing despair in the countryside. No one will allow a non performing government to sit in peace.
Let’s assume Rahul Gandhi is a dud and is saying whatever he thinks will get his party votes. But I sincerely want to ask the writer: what is your fantastic solution to deal with poverty – which is a very real issue. Running a country is not about textbook theories and isms, and allergies to words like povertarianism. People under poverty line are real human beings. Beyond hoping that big business will hit it big, and somehow the benefits will trickle down to lower sections, does the writer even have a solution? Given neither manufacturing has picked up despite a massive majority for BJP, nor has the government anything to show for lessening of corruption, have you prioritised one section, and will think up something for the rest as you go along? Are you blind to bad loans accumulated by big business or do you believe they re immune from scrutiny? It is not a talking point that Congress is talking abt farmers crisis. It is weary cynicism and privileged ennui of the writer that he talks as if speaking of the farmer crisis – addressing it – is a choice that the country has. Poverty alleviation is not a tulip you pick from a florist to drop into a bouquet, leaving out the carnations. Pity the writer is clueless and utterly unsympathetic to pressing problems. Rahul Gandhi is not even the Prime Minister. Let’s see half this critique of Modi’s policies. He is answerable.
The one genuine reformer the party has is Shri P. Chidambaram. It might wish to task him to start work on a serious blueprint for revival of the economy. If voted back to power at the head of a very large group of regional parties, the Congress will have to move beyond the welfarism of the NAC. Someone like Ms Mamata Banerjee, once seen as being to the left of the Left, is now taking prudent management of state finances and attracting investment to Bengal very seriously. There is growing despair in the countryside. No one will allow a non performing government to sit in peace.
Let’s assume Rahul Gandhi is a dud and is saying whatever he thinks will get his party votes. But I sincerely want to ask the writer: what is your fantastic solution to deal with poverty – which is a very real issue. Running a country is not about textbook theories and isms, and allergies to words like povertarianism. People under poverty line are real human beings. Beyond hoping that big business will hit it big, and somehow the benefits will trickle down to lower sections, does the writer even have a solution? Given neither manufacturing has picked up despite a massive majority for BJP, nor has the government anything to show for lessening of corruption, have you prioritised one section, and will think up something for the rest as you go along? Are you blind to bad loans accumulated by big business or do you believe they re immune from scrutiny? It is not a talking point that Congress is talking abt farmers crisis. It is weary cynicism and privileged ennui of the writer that he talks as if speaking of the farmer crisis – addressing it – is a choice that the country has. Poverty alleviation is not a tulip you pick from a florist to drop into a bouquet, leaving out the carnations. Pity the writer is clueless and utterly unsympathetic to pressing problems. Rahul Gandhi is not even the Prime Minister. Let’s see half this critique of Modi’s policies. He is answerable.