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Post by confuzzled dude Sun May 24, 2015 10:34 am

Over the last couple of weeks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ministers have been busy telling people how good the government really is. It reminds me of the Latin saying, vasa vana plurimum sonant (an empty vessel makes the most noise).

The ministers are also genuinely puzzled as to why last year's supporters have turned into critics this year, some of them very trenchant.
But Modi will not be the first one to disappoint in this manner. He is in excellent company. Indeed, it seems to be an iron law of politics that everyone who comes in with a bang very quickly disappoints the voters.

Indira Gandhi won the 1971 Lok Sabha elections with a huge majority on the garibi hatao slogan. Then she swept the states in 1972 after cutting Pakistan up into two. The Economist, always a bit silly, called her the Empress of India.

But by mid-1973, she was in trouble. The Opposition came together over inflation and corruption.

Then in 1977, the Janata Party did to the Congress what Modi has done to it in 2014. But by mid-1978, it was in deep political trouble, even though the economy was doing better than ever before.

The trouble started within the party but soon spread outside as the Congress revived under Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi. By mid-1979, the show was over and the government fell.
In 1984, Rajiv Gandhi, after Indira Gandhi's horrible assassination, won as many as 415 seats out of the 543 in the Lok Sabha. By mid-1986, he was in deep political trouble, which became full-blown by early 1987 when he sacked V P Singh.

Then came Bofors and after that, it was all downhill for him. He never recovered.
http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/t-c-a-srinivasa-raghavan-why-mr-modi-may-have-missed-the-bus-115052300808_1.html

Mr. Clean mantras of BJP bhakts after 1st year, reminded me of Rajiv Gandhi's govt; I was like haven't we seen this nonsense before.

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