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India Government’s Failings Despite BJP Stalls

Faced with a failing government mired in corruption scandals, and struggling to take any action to correct a listing economy, India’s opposition Bharatiya Janata party should be preparing for power.

Instead the Hindu nationalist party, which began life appealing to the rising middle class, will go into state elections next month in March with opinion polls suggesting that it will struggle to do any real damage to the Congress-led government.

The reasons are myriad. But one key factor appears to be that the BJP is blamed, almost as much as Congress, for the political stalemate that has left parliament unable to operate properly, discouraged investment, hit business confidence and transformed India’s ambitious nine per cent economic growth target into something closer to 7 per cent. The stalemate is largely blamed on the dogfight between the two main parties.Source