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Post by confuzzled dude Sat May 16, 2015 2:59 pm

Is making a U-turn necessarily a bad thing in politics and governance? Popular wisdom would say a resounding yes. The Congress has lately been accusing the Narendra Modi Government, as it completes its first year in power, of being a U-Turn Sarkar on many key policies, as it aligns its actions entirely along UPA's policies it had opposed. Then why are we being pleased that this is a U-Turn Sarkar?

In 2008, his party, then under L.K. Advani, had joined hands with Prakash Karat's to try to bring down UPA over its insistence on proceeding with the nuclear deal, which it called anti-national. Now, Modi calls it the "centre-piece" of the new India-US relationship.

The next reversal of an oppositionist BJP position was on the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh. Again, when Manmohan Singh had finalised the agreement with Sheikh Hasina, the BJP had blocked it. Now Modi has had it passed successfully without an amendment.

The third reversal came last week. As with the nuclear deal in UPA 1, the entire opposition, led by the BJP, had resisted the UPA's decision to allow 51 per cent FDI in multi-brand retail. For the BJP, this opposition had looked more natural. It counts the Bania community, which dominates traditional Indian retail (called kirana), as its loyal vote bank and FDI was seen as a threat to them.

The fourth U-Turn is unfolding this week as Modi holds his third meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping within a year. One central theme in the BJP's criticism of the UPA was that it was appeasing both China and Pakistan, and the NDA would pursue a genuinely muscular policy on both.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/modi-government-1-year-in-office-performance-bjp-shekhar-gupta/1/438115.html

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