Government fights midlife crisis, seven-year itch

The romance between voters and the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) appears strained — by an unusual coalition of a midlife crisis and a seven-year itch. It’s only the second anniversary of the UPA-2 government — nearly halfway into the life of its term — but the coalition has been in power since 2004, making it a continuous run of seven years. Manmohan Singh is the longest serving prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. Even under normal circumstances, disillusion would have set in and alternatives would have looked more attractive. A torrent of scams and some slipshod policy moves could have made it far worse. An HT-C Fore survey across 14 cities , polling 10,126 people, reveals that there are still a few silver linings in the clouds for Singh and Team.

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