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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.
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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
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Farmers' Protest 2.0: The then Congress regime had then rejected the MSP formula saying it will “distort the market”.
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Sitharaman criticised the way the UPA government managed the economy after the Atal Bihari Vajpayee's NDA government
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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"Modi replaced the UPA government which was involved in scams worth Rs 12 lakh crore. The prime minister has laid the strong foundation for a corruption-free India," Shah said addressing a public rally here.
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In the last leg of the election, PM Modi is BJP’s best bet to woo voters to retain power in the party's Gateway to the South. If he can do it, he will also have rewritten a historical trend of Karnataka booting out incumbents since 1985, which would be quite an achievement in itself
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Sitharaman cited examples of the Mysuru-Bengaluru expressway, Metro, suburban rail, Vande Bharat train and flyovers initiated by the NDA government
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Addressing a gathering at the diamond jubilee celebrations of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Modi on Monday said there is today no dearth of political will to act against corruption and officers should take action against the corrupt, however powerful, without any hesitation.
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The Opposition party also said the Modi government is yet to clarify its position on an updated caste census.
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Thirty-two MLAs of the JMM-Congress-RJD coalition in Jharkhand flew to Raipur by a chartered flight on Tuesday and were taken to Mayfair Golf Resort in Nava Raipur.
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Nirmala Sitharaman also said in the Lok Sabha that actions have been taken, including registration of FIRs, against those who have cheated small savings depositors through various fraudulent activities.
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The Modi government gave the armed forces the "fullest right" to take appropriate decisions at appropriate times to show to the people of the country how India responds in such situations, she said.
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However, economic reforms since 2014 under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government have helped build confidence of people in the economy, she said.
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Economic development is an intensely contested project, throwing up winners and losers. It has always been so, no matter what the political system
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Talking about his journey from a software czar to a technocrat who played a central role in building India's digital rails, Nilekani said the most crucial trait a technocrat needs to have is the ability to build consensus.
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Speaking to reporters later, Raut, executive editor of Saamana, said the UPA needs to expand to take on the "dictatorial" Union government.
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The Finance Minister, through a series of tweets posted late night on Tuesday, said that the Congress has attempted to mislead people, and former Congress President Rahul Gandhi should introspect why his party fails to play a constructive role in cleaning up the system.
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CBI has sought sanction to prosecute these officials who had “direct” involvement and allegedly tweaked the process to favour M/s AgustaWestland
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Clarifying Shiv Sena’s absence from the recent opposition meeting despite being a Congress ally in Maharashtra, Raut said that was due to “miscommunication”
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After the result of the Jharkhand election, the BJP seems to have done for the Opposition what the latter may not have been able to achieve on its own – unity.
