Speaking at the annual Dusshera rally of the Shiv Sena in Mumbai, Shinde said UPA government's decision not to strike Pakistan after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack "under someone's pressure" amounted to "treachery".
Manmohan Singh's first term as Prime Minister will be remembered for his uncompromising commitment to secure the Indo-US nuclear deal, and how he chose to put national interest above coalition politics.
Coalition governments and GDP growth are not mandatorily correlated. India has in the past, managed to do reasonably well without single-party majorities at the helm of affairs. And a country’s economic performance depends on a whole host of factors including global economic conditions.
NDA government’s approach focused much more on micro-revolutions with greater emphasis on implementation as compared to UPA, who had a macro approach to growth and development, with greater emphasis on the aggregate numbers
Farmers' Protest 2.0: The then Congress regime had then rejected the MSP formula saying it will “distort the market”.
Sitharaman criticised the way the UPA government managed the economy after the Atal Bihari Vajpayee's NDA government
Days after presenting the interim Budget and ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 8 tabled the government's white paper on the Indian economy, chronicling what it calls the "insurmountable challenges" left behind by the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government.
When Prime Minister Modi took charge, the economy was on a "road to nowhere", and was showing signs of distress emanating from multiple policy "wrong turns", the white paper said.
Congress accuses PM Modi of saying 'countless false things' against the previous UPA governments.
Noting that the government's intention behind bringing the bill was political, he said it will not be implemented in the next 10 years as it has been linked to the population census and the delimitation exercise.
Ultimately, the fate of the opposition alliance will depend on the challenge that the Congress Party can mount and how it performs in the seats in which it directly confronts the BJP
The NDA meeting will be held in Delhi on July 18 evening, while the two-day meeting of 26 opposition parties got underway in Bengaluru on July 17 evening.