A bold and sweeping momentum then needs to take hold in the Government, so that multiple structural issues can be dealt with simultaneously. On the streets of Mumbai, there is no discernible ‘wave’ even now, mere days before the Maharashtra State Assembly elections. An analytical cabbie there said to me that the city has been run lately and for some years by a pact between the Congress-NCP State Government and the Shiv Sena controlled Municipality. It is live and let live, or else; and this has become an acceptable formula to both sides. The public mood may be against this faustian pact, he continued, but what has really changed now? What will be the impact of the ‘Modi difference’ in the absence of a ‘leher’, and how will it be judged, if there is no choice but to go in for a contentious post poll-coalition, muses he. In this election season, post the momentous breaks in the Congress-NCP alliance and that of the BJP-Shiv Sena, there are rumours and counter-rumours being floated every day, presumably to seek tactical advantage. The waters are being deliberately muddied to show each one in a bad light, but it appears to be only confusing, confounding and turning- off the voting public.
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 12:41:56 +0000
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