Narendra Modi still has much to prove

by confuzzled dude Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:35 pm

Today Prime Minister Modi stands at the pinnacle of Indian politics. In May, he led the BJP to India’s first single-party parliamentary majority in 25 years. He has since steamrolled a dispirited and disorganized opposition in a string of state elections. A leader whose reputation for hard-line Hindu nationalism once evoked suspicion in Western capitals has successfully projected himself as the one politician who can right India’s battered economy and help the country fulfill its strategic potential as a bulwark of democracy in a region threatened by both an aggressive China and a resurgent radical Islam.

So far at least, Mr. Modi has largely failed to show that he can steer the vast ship of the Indian state as deftly as he did the much smaller state government in Gujarat.

But Mr. Modi has been loath to inject fresh talent from the private sector or to use the lure of power to poach competent technocrats from rival parties. He appears overly reliant on career civil servants to turn into reality his two principal economic slogans—“minimum government, maximum governance” and “the government has no business to be in business.” A few individual exceptions notwithstanding, it is hard to think of a body less suited to implement this vision of less intrusive governance than the Indian civil service.

To further complicate matters, the government has failed to tame hotheads among its own supporters who interpret Mr. Modi’s mandate as a victory for their crude brand of cultural nationalism rather than for the economic development he promised on the stump

http://www.wsj.com/articles/sadanand-dhume-narendra-modi-still-has-much-to-prove-1420131860

by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:45 am

2005 - Oh...Sonia has had only 1 year and too short to reverse the damage done by BJP over the previous 5 years.

2010 - Oh...Sonia is doing her best and she still has 4 more years to prove.

2015 - oh no...Modi has been PM for the last Siiiiiiixxxxxx months and has much to prove.

by Seva Lamberdar Mon Jan 05, 2015 10:12 am

Modi has already proved a very important point by getting elected as the P.M. ... Indian voter wants the political parties to declare their prime ministerial candidates' names before the parliamentary elections so people can take a good look at them before casting their votes. A huge plus for the Indian democracy.

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