As the discontentment mounts, the crucial question remains: what is the PM thinking? He is a shrewd politician so he must have a long-term strategy. But no one can figure out what it is.
Taxpayers with an income of over Rs 10 lakh are complaining that the middle class was largely ignored in the budget. Some fact-checking is necessary to find out if this is true.
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The Finance Minister said on Sunday that she was aware of the pressures of the middle class but recalled that the present government has not imposed any fresh taxes on them.
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Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.
There is no actual right wing in India. Taxpayers dont get anything in return, most of our big cities flood with just few mm of rain and people spend one third of their life stuck in traffic. Noone seems to care where all the tax is going. BJP follows the same economic policies of congess with some extra cushioning to the handful oligarchs who keep pumping the party with money.
Modi thinks about winning elections more than actually doing something good for the country. If you genuinely do somethung good you may loose in the short term but long term people will make you win. Unfortunately all our politicians are short sighted and cowards.
Not for charlatans masquerading as journalists to try and guess what Modi is thinking. Particularly when hatred for Modi is an article of faith for you and favorite pastime.
He wants to be vishwa guru with Ukraine visit
He has abondend middle class he is highly dependent on bureaucracy and has ministers who were ex bureaucrats who usually does not have ears on ground
He is not learning lessons that buying mlas ministers doesn’t help still buying ex cm of jharkhand
His downfall started will continue with Maharashtra j&k and haryana
He was lucky with weak opposition but now people will show with votes make him loose
Not pro opposition votes but just to make him loose
Messing up big time
Modi is clueless. The guy has nothing to show for 10 years in government. All that was done was fake promises like less government, doubling farmer’s incomes etc none of which have come true. PVNR, ABV and MMS (in the first term) achieved much more despite leading coalitions and having their hands tied. Rest assured Modi has a new excuse to do nothing for the next 5 years, claiming he’s running a coalition. Luckily for him the opposition is completely incompetent as well.
All well said, but I may disagree with Vir when he says the PM is shrewed. Rather, the opposition is stupid, highly stupid and weak, and this relative difference is one of the higher reasons for the BJP to shine. BJP’s Hindu rashtra narratives, for example, went down strong among the middle class, who are in anyway always hungry for an identity (being middle class and being unable to see beyond themselves). If not, by the end of the second term, the tide should have already turned.
Fine column by Shri P B Mehta in Indian Express today.
There is no actual right wing in India. Taxpayers dont get anything in return, most of our big cities flood with just few mm of rain and people spend one third of their life stuck in traffic. Noone seems to care where all the tax is going. BJP follows the same economic policies of congess with some extra cushioning to the handful oligarchs who keep pumping the party with money.
Modi thinks about winning elections more than actually doing something good for the country. If you genuinely do somethung good you may loose in the short term but long term people will make you win. Unfortunately all our politicians are short sighted and cowards.
Not for charlatans masquerading as journalists to try and guess what Modi is thinking. Particularly when hatred for Modi is an article of faith for you and favorite pastime.
He wants to be vishwa guru with Ukraine visit
He has abondend middle class he is highly dependent on bureaucracy and has ministers who were ex bureaucrats who usually does not have ears on ground
He is not learning lessons that buying mlas ministers doesn’t help still buying ex cm of jharkhand
His downfall started will continue with Maharashtra j&k and haryana
He was lucky with weak opposition but now people will show with votes make him loose
Not pro opposition votes but just to make him loose
Messing up big time
Modi is clueless. The guy has nothing to show for 10 years in government. All that was done was fake promises like less government, doubling farmer’s incomes etc none of which have come true. PVNR, ABV and MMS (in the first term) achieved much more despite leading coalitions and having their hands tied. Rest assured Modi has a new excuse to do nothing for the next 5 years, claiming he’s running a coalition. Luckily for him the opposition is completely incompetent as well.
Modi is thinking of abandoning prudent economics; and chanting freebies, subsidies, reservation, loan waivers, and jai karl marxa.
All well said, but I may disagree with Vir when he says the PM is shrewed. Rather, the opposition is stupid, highly stupid and weak, and this relative difference is one of the higher reasons for the BJP to shine. BJP’s Hindu rashtra narratives, for example, went down strong among the middle class, who are in anyway always hungry for an identity (being middle class and being unable to see beyond themselves). If not, by the end of the second term, the tide should have already turned.