BJP: The party of no principle

Just a week ago, it seemed that the UPA government and the Congress party could do nothing right, and this failure to perform had been going on for more than a year: corruption, 2G scam, Team Anna, high inflation, low growth. Manmohan Singh, former reform finance minister, had done no economic reform worthy of India, or his name, for the last seven years that he had been prime minister. He seemingly had no support within his own party — the rank and file of the Congress has never looked kindly on any reform, political or economic — or outside. All of his supporters had joined the erstwhile category (full disclosure: myself included).

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