Anniversary of a lost opportunity

Four seemingly unrelated yet significant developments that played out in the run-up to the second anniversary of the United Progressive Alliance sum up the second innings of this government. One exposed the dysfunctional nature of UPA-II, the second reflected the government’s failure in tackling the single-biggest macroeconomic malaise (for some time now), the third indicated the government’s inability to sell a policy decision to its various stakeholders and constituents, and the last reiterated the taint of alleged corruption that’s become, in some ways, the leitmotif of this government.

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