Two years of UPA,
A hundred tears of aam aadmi

The Congress Party, though in power as head of United Progressive Alliance (UPA), has failed to live up to the promises it made to the electorate before elections. The National Common Minimum Programme hastily cobbled together by the alliance afterwards remains just a piece of paper unattended, unfulfilled in true letter and spirit. As the UPA completes two years in office, it has nothing worthwhile to claim credit for. Yet, it is customary for a ruling party or alliance to come out with a list of ‘achievements’ real or imaginary. As the facts stand, its very name is a misnomer. It is neither ‘united’, nor ‘progressive’ nor an ‘alliance’. It has become a ‘sarkar’ promoting the interests of the khaas aadmi at the cost of the aam aadmi.

The Congress-led UPA government during the last two years has failed in almost every sphere of government activity—political, administrative, economic, home and foreign affairs—to keep promises held out to people in the election manifesto and the solemn pledges made in the post-election National Common Minimum Programme.

Lack of unity in UPA

To call UPA united one will have to change the very definition of what ‘united’ means. If what all the constituents of UPA — the Congress, Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samajwadi Party, Telangana Rashtra Samiti, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Lok Janshakti Party, Rashtriya Congress Party, Janata Dal (Secular) or the Left parties — publicly speak against each other is taken into account, it becomes difficult to discern whether they are part of a single alliance or each other’s foes after each other’s blood.

Equally trying is the task to keep a track of which UPA ally fought election in alliance and which in opposition to each other. They are together in Delhi and fighting bitter political and electoral battles all over the country.

Telangana duped

During assembly elections two years back Congress and Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) entered into an electoral alliance on the promise that if they win, they will bifurcate the existing State of Andhra Pradesh to carve out a separate, full-fledged State of Telangana. Both the parties won the assembly elections but the Congress betrayed the people’s mandate and during the last two years it has not fulfilled its promise. Frustrated, the TRS came out of the ministry both at the Centre and State in Andhra.

Left only barks

Important CPM leaders are on record having said that UPA should not take their support for granted. “We don’t only bark”, they have often said, “but we can bite too”. It is a different matter if so far they have barked every time but never come true to their threat. Ironically, it has always been the fate of the Left parties to wag their tails in agreement before their political master—Congress—and each time to compromise with their stand.

Be it the case of increase in the prices of petrol, diesel, cooking gas, power and water charges, or FDI in various fields, PSU disinvestment, they wave red flags in public and surreptitiously give a green signal to the UPA in private meetings.

Manmohan & Sonia on different wavelengths

There was a contradiction even in the language used against the Left parties by Congress supremo Smt. Sonia Gandhi and the one used by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. With an eye on the stability of his government, during electioneering in the States of Kerala, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu Prime Minister called the Left parties as “valuable colleagues”. On the other hand, Smt. Sonia Gandhi was vehement in their denunciation.

Issuing certificates of innocence

One of the reasons that prompted Smt. Sonia Gandhi to formulate a post-election alliance with parties against whom Congress had fought a bitter electoral battle, seems to be her effort to use power to cleanse the dirt accumulated because of many scams, scandals and corruption indulged in by the party. Congress was instrumental in using the CBI to promote its political purpose by getting the name of late Shri Rajiv Gandhi cleared from the courts. It got cleared the name of Capt. Satish Sharma who was involved in various cases of corruption in the notorious petrol pumps scam. So about cases against Smt. Sonia’s Private Secretary Shri Vincent George and case against Congress MP and former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister, Shri Ajit Jogi in the cash-for-MLA case.

Sonia protégé as Election Commissioner

Election Commissioner Shri Navin Chawla owes his present position only to favours he earned from Gandhi dynasty right from the time of late Smt. Indira Gandhi. Before being appointed EC Shri Chawla obtained lakhs of rupees from Congress MPs out of their MPLAD funds as donation to a Trust run by Smt. Chawla and one in his own name. Any election held under his supervision cannot instil faith among the people of its having been free, fair and impartial. Yet such a person continues to hold such a respectable office, courtesy the Gandhi family.

A Sarkar for Khas Aadmi Rising prices and increasing shortages of essential commodities have made the life of common man miserable. The day polling was over in Rae Bareily Parliamentary constituency by-poll contested by Smt. Sonia Gandhi and in the States of Kerala, West Bengal, Pondichery and Tamil Nadu, Union Petroleum Minister wrote to CPM and CPI leaders saying that prices of petrol, diesel, Kerosene oil and LPG cylinders needed to be raised. During the UPA rule prices of coal, sugar, tea, sarson oil, dal, milk, chillies, maida, fruits, vegetable, chappal etc. have gone up from 20 to 100 percent.

PM shames war of independence

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh put the nation to shame by eulogizing the British regime in India against whom Mahatma Gandhi led a struggle for independence and thousands of our patriots even lost their lives. Surprisingly, the Prime Minister did not apologise to the nation for these remarks.

Militancy raising head in Punjab

As elections to the Punjab assembly are drawing near in January-February 2007, the militancy that lay extinct before Congress came to power is once again raising its head in the State. There have been stray incidents of terrorism in Punjab and two incidents of bomb blasts in Delhi cinemas.

A few months earlier Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amrinder Singh on an official addressed a congregation in Canada where anti-India and pro-Khalistan slogans had been prominently displayed behind him on the dais.

Undermining constitutional institutions

UPA government has done more damage to the democratic institutions, norms and standards of our polity than any other government in independent India’s history.

Governors removed with a design

As against the established practice, UPA removed all Governors appointed during NDA regime “because they did not subscribe to the ideology” of the new government. It replaced them with pliable Congress nominees known for their commitment to sign on the dotted line and act as directed. Subsequent events proved it.

The dismissal of BJP government in Goa within minutes of its having won a vote of confidence on the floor of the State assembly, administering of oath of office to Shri Shibu Soren who never had a majority and dissolution of Bihar assembly are some of the glaring instances. Had the Supreme Court not intervened, Jharkhand Governor would have been successful in scuttling the people’s verdict in favour of an NDA government.

“Unconstitutional” dissolution of Bihar Assembly

On the recommendation of the Governor, Shri Buta Singh, the Manmohan government dissolved the Bihar Assembly. A cabinet meeting to consider his report was convened at dead of night and the recommendation faxed for instant approval to the President who was on an official tour to Russia. A notification to this effect was issued at 3.30 A.M. This had been done solely to prevent NDA led by Shri Nitish Kumar to stake claim to form a government the next morning.

The Supreme Court held this decision of Manmohan Government as “unconstitutional”, and made disparaging comments on the functioning of UPA government which could not absolve itself of the responsibility for the wrong done.

Sonia Gandhi’s renunciation drama

The so-called “Great Renunciator” has, in fact, through this masterly stroke become the Super Prime Minister in the UPA government. Smt. Gandhi who, on the one hand, claimed to have made the “supreme sacrifice”, and on the other, forced a pliant Prime Minister to create an extra-constitutional authority styled as National Advisory Council with herself as its chairperson. This institution is an affront to Parliamentary system.

Office of profit

It was the Congress Party itself that raised the matter of violation of law by Smt. Jaya Bachchan, a Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh as she was holding an office of profit. But the step boomeranged on Congress because while being an MP Smt. Gandhi herself was also occupying the all-powerful office of the NAC Chairperson. Cornered, the Congress-led UPA all of a sudden surprised everybody by adjourning sine die both Houses of Parliament on March 22 although, according to the schedule, both the Houses were to adjourn for a recess and re-assembly on May 10. This was obviously done to promulgate an Ordinance to save Smt. Gandhi because an ordinance cannot be promulgated as long as the House is in session.

This step was vehemently opposed by BJP-led NDA and even UPA supporters. An embarrassed Smt. Gandhi decided to come out of this ugly situation by staging another ‘renunciation’ drama by resigning both from Parliament and the office of NAC chairperson. If the Congress and Smt. Gandhi were innocent, they should have faced the Parliament, Election Commission and presented their case before the President of India.

The Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Bill, 2006 only made her tyag nautanki a laughing stock.

Recent election results

In the just concluded elections to five State assemblies of West Bengal, Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, Congress received the worst drubbing at the hands of the electorate. Congress-led UDF was dethroned in Kerala and in Assam, Congress which had overwhelming majority in the last election was humbled and relegated to the position of the single largest party having to depend upon others against whom it fought elections to form a government. In West Bengal and Tamil Nadu Congress was a loser as ever.

UPA’s handling of NBA protest

For 20 years Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) has opposed the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) and had even pressurised Central Government and World Bank to withdraw from the project. At conservative estimates, this resulted in a loss of Rs. 6,000 crore to the public exchequer.

Prompted by political considerations, UPA Government tried to stop construction work. After Shri Narendra Modi openly protested and voiced the anger of Gujarat’s people, the Gujarat Congress too supported Shri Modi for the State’s development.

Supreme Court rejected NBA’s plea to stop the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam from being raised from 110 to 121.92 metres and instructed that the construction should go on.

Appease to divide country
Majority-minority divide

Solely motivated by vote-bank politics disregarding the national interests, the Congress government in AP reserved 5 percent seats in government jobs for Muslims on the basis of religion. BJP opposed the move. The High Court set aside this religion-based reservation as “unconstitutional”, yet Congress is bent upon finding ways and means to go against the constitutional provisions disregarding court verdicts.

A Prime Minister not in command Prime Minister is the supreme head of the executive, whose authority straddles both political and administrative domains but we have a prime minister who is not in command of his own government. His ministers do not take him into confidence before publicly announcing important matters of policy. Many a times, a new policy is really a news he gets through newspapers or electronic media. That is why a year back, he had to write to his Ministers to keep PMO in touch with such policy announcements.

HRD Minister Shri Arjun Singh, ordered 50 percent reservation for Muslims in Aligarh Muslim University. The High Court set aside this decision declaring that AMU is not a minority institution. Yet, the government has gone to the Supreme Court and although the matter is sub judice Shri Arjun Singh continues to declare that he is bent upon restoring the minority status to AMU despite court verdict.

Communal face of Congress

Immediately before the Assembly elections in Bihar during October 2005, Congress released a list of its candidates, divided on the basis of their religion and caste.

The Justice Rajinder Sachar Committee constituted by UPA asked the Armed Forces to give a list of all Muslims in defence services.

Centre-State relations - from bad to worse

By its actions the UPA government has proved that it does not believe in federalism. This Government has openly indulged in discriminatory treatment against non-Congress, non-UPA state governments, especially governments run by the NDA as is the case with Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand States. All these States have been doing exceptionally well.

‘Bharat Nirman’ hoax Recently, Prime Minister launched what is billed as a new mega-development initiative for rural India called ‘Bharat Nirman’, with an outlay of Rs. 1,73,000 crore over the next four years. There is hardly anything new in it. It is just a repackaging of the various ambitious projects and path-breaking initiatives of the NDA Government under a new name.

Betrayal of Unemployed Youth

UPA’s Common Minimum Programme had promised to “immediately enact a National Employment Guarantee Act”. But the recently Act provides for an employment for 100 days at the rate of Rs. 60 per day in a year for unemployed in only 200 districts leaving out more than 400 districts out of its purview. Four crore educated unemployed living in urban areas have been denied even this benefit.

Economic Mismanagement
Manmohan Proposes, CPM Disposes

The unprecedented trade deficit of USD 30 billion (Rs.1,35,000 crores) has put pressure on the rupee which continues to fall. The price of gold has also scaled new heights making it beyond the reach of the common man.

The communist parties continue to dictate economic policies whether it is the disinvestment in PSUs, modernisation of airports, creation of Pension Fund Authority, restructuring of banking sector and consolidation of PSU banks, FDI in retail, EPF rate or WTO negotiations. Decisions are being put in cold storage because of communist pressure.

FDI in retail to open gates of unemployment

UPA has decided to introduce FDI in retail sector. According to preliminary estimates, the step will render jobless about 4 crore people already engaged in retail trade.

Tax burden increases

In his last budget speech the Finance Minister assured everyone that he was reducing taxes while in reality he was increasing them. The average tax payer, therefore, is baffled. Women tax-payers, senior citizens, salaried employees, corporate sector are all up in arms against this deceit. The cash withdrawal tax and fringe benefit tax are examples that it is a budget for the khas aadmi wherein cars, soft drink, pasta etc. have become cheaper and essential commodities of every day use have become costlier.

Agriculture neglected

The farmers continue to be subjected to the twin problems of drought and floods. Rural credit structure remains lifeless and the delivery mechanism of cooperatives and rural banks as also the kisan credit cards are not being used effectively by the UPA Government to deliver credit in time and sufficient to the requirement.

Water Resources The Common Minimum Programme promised that it would provide drinking water facility to all sections of people in urban and rural areas on top priority. Unfortunately, the sad truth is that chronic water shortage continues everywhere in the country including in the national capital. National rivers worshipped by Indians all over the country have been converted into poisonous waters through bad governance.

Betrayal of Kisans

In States like Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and others there are suicides by farmers on account of the immense debt burden on them. More than 3,800 farmers have committed suicide since the UPA government came to power. According to latest reports, on an average 10 farmers are committing suicides everyday in the country. The reason mainly is that farmers have not been able to pay back their loans.

Budget outlay for schemes for the benefit of farmers and rural development has been slashed.

Wheat import to hurt Kisans

The wheat production in the country is satisfactory and the UPA government decision to import five lakh tonnes of wheat is totally wrong and anti-farmer. Over 160 lakh tonnes of wheat would be available in the market in this season (May), which has been priced at Rs. 650 per quintal while the price of the imported wheat has been fixed at Rs. 950 per quintal. It smacks of a major scam.

Foreign Policy Mismanagement
Mortgaging national interests with US

Ignoring the interests of the nation and bypassing the authority of Parliament by signing the Indo-US Nuclear Deal UPA government mortgaged what our accomplished scientists had so far achieved in development of Nuclear technology at great perseverance and cost. Indian Parliament put its seal of approval about six months back, but the US government has so far failed to get it approved from the US Congress. Former Prime Minister, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee has rightly alleged that US is trying to impose its will on India and the country may end up giving more and more concessions.

POTA repeal The scrapping of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) by the UPA Government to gratify Islamists and Communists has not been received, particularly in countries waging a war against terrorism. The US Administration, which has been monitoring efforts by individual countries to combat terrorism, is of the view that the Government of India lacks the legal wherewithal for an effective counter-terrorism mechanism.

Indo-US relations

UPA’s lack of understanding in dealing with US is worrying. With the UPA Government’s obsequious policies, there is every apprehension of Indo-US relations slipping in to an ‘asymmetry’, thus damaging the long term prospects of friendship and cooperation between the two countries.

Siachin

The Indian Army is not averse to vacating the Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL), if the nation so desires, but wants that what it secured with great effort and many sacrifices for the last 22 years, should not be sacrificed merely to notch up one more CBM towards the ephemeral peace process.

It is well known that the Indian Army has made immense sacrifices first to gain, and thereafter to secure, control of this strategic area in the north of the Line of Control (LoC) since 1984. All attempts by Pakistan in the past 22 years to dislodge the Indian troops from Siachen have failed. The government must not gift away on the diplomatic table what our soldiers have fought hard to gain on the battlefield.

Bangladesh

The Government has been equally inept in dealing with Bangladesh. Infiltration and illegal immigration from Bangladesh goes on unchecked. Pakistan’s ISI finds Bangladesh a safe haven for its activities. UPA Government lacks a policy to deal with the Bangladesh Government which continues to export terrorists to India and also shelter Indian terrorists on its soil.

Nepal

The case for promoting democracy in Nepal has been effectively articulated by BJP which has always supported a stable democracy and a constitutional monarchy. UPA government’s policy towards Nepal leaves everyone completely baffled. It is a tale of unprecedented flip-flop. There is thus complete lack of coordination between the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Defence. Nobody knows who is in charge of the policy towards Nepal.

India and UN Security Council Reforms

On the question of India’s permanent membership of the UN Security Council, the Government has been sending similar contradictory signals. It made a statement in Parliament that there was no question of accepting permanent membership without veto power. Thereafter, the Government of India appears to have changed its stand and seems to be preparing for a compromise on this issue.

Internal Security Mismanagement

Coalition partners of the UPA unabashedly sponsor and protect criminals, themselves indulge in criminal activities and spread lawlessness. The price for all this disorder is paid by the “aam aadmi”.

Internal security threatened

The greatest failure of UPA has been on the internal security front. For narrow political and electoral considerations, it repealed POTA without evolving an effective mechanism to face the threat of cross-border terrorism, Naxalite/Maoist activities and divisive forces. As a result the terrorist organizations have felt emboldened to kill 63 and injuring more than 200 innocent men, women and children in Diwali eve blasts in the nation’s capital. Nation’s IT capital Bangalore was also the target of a terrorist attack in which one renowned IT professor was killed. The terrorists also attacked the Ram Mandir complex in Ayodhya and Sankatmochan temple in Varanasi.

Naxals/Maoists

Because of politico-electoral considerations the UPA government has been adopting a soft line against the menace of Naxal/Maoist elements. In exchange for electoral support to it during AP assembly elections State Congress promised to lift the ban on PWG imposed by the then TDP government. On being voted to power, Congress did lift the ban and entered into a dialogue with these elements. The policy boomeranged on the Congress and the State government had, ultimately, to re-impose ban on the PWG.

The Naxalite threat pervades in 40 per cent of the country’s geographical area and 35 per cent of its population covering 170 districts in 15 States stretching from Nepal to Sri Lanka.

Dastardly Hindu Killings The internal security of the country has never been under greater threat than at present. The Central government is guilty of complacency and laxity. Dastardly killing of 35 Hindus in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir on the last day of April, 2006 and killing of two BJP workers on May 13 when hand grenades were thrown at a peaceful BJP procession. Through a definite plan Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir were being targeted by militants to force “ethnic cleansing” by forcing their exodus from Jammu, particularly Doda and Udhampur districts.

Nepal Maoists

The UPA government failed to take a stand on the Maoist revolt in Nepal because of the sympathy its Left alliance partners entertained for Maoists. The steps the UPA government took against the Nepal government indirectly helped the Maoists who, for all intents and purposes, are militants. This situation helped China. It is no secret that the Nepalese Maoists have established their nexus with Indian Maoists and Naxalites creating havoc in various parts of the country.

Shy to name Pakistan

Cross-border terrorism is on the increase because Manmohan Singh government has failed take a strong principled stand. It is an undisputed fact that Pakistan has had a hand in every terrorist attack be it in Jammu and Kashmir, Ayodhya, New Delhi, Bangalore or elsewhere, in the country. But, surprisingly, UPA ministers each time feel shy of mentioning Pakistan by name. By reiterating endlessly that the “peace process is irreversible”, that “acts of terrorism” will not make India abandon this path, what in reality India has abandoned is the issue of ‘cross border terrorism’.

Situation in North-East deteriorates

It appears the writ of the UPA government does not run in the north-east. The situation last year so much worsened that after the rape of Manorma, Manipuri women had stripped themselves in public as a matter of protest – an incident unheard of in India. Because of blockade by Naga students the situation worsened so much last year that essential commodities failed to reach Manipur for two months causing untold misery to the people. The terrorist organizations also threatened people against contesting and exercising their franchise in the municipal elections with the result that both the candidates and the voters were wary of taking part in the elections.

IMDT ACT

The Supreme Court on July 7, 2005 declared the Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, 1983 as “unconstitutional” but the UPA government has as yet to take any concrete steps to respect the court verdict. To delay implementation of SC directions, it has constituted a Group of Ministers and during the last more than ten months nothing has moved. This was done deliberately in view of elections to Assam Assembly because Congress did not wish to lose the votes of illegal migrants. On the eve of Assam elections, UPA Government issued a notification under the Foreigners Act that puts the onus of proving a particular person as a foreigner on the complainant. This was done just to help the illegal migrants on whose electoral support UPA, particularly the Congress, is banking.

Pakistan violates understanding

On coming into power the UPA allowed passengers to travel on permits with the result that Hurriyat leaders who went to Muzaffarabad without passport visited Pakistan and met Pakistan President. It is for the first time in the history of the world, and at least in the history of India, that natives have visited a foreign country, Pakistan, without passports.

Conspiracy on Kashmir

In recent days a preposterous concept has been floated by certain American think-tanks, of something called the “United States of Kashmir” whose sovereignty shall be shared between India and Pakistan. The UPA Government tacitly gives an impression that it is not averse to discussing these matters. This is destructive for the unity of India. The unity and integrity of India is non-negotiable. The entire State of Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India.

Communal riots

On April 5, Ram Navmi day, riots started in Aligarh after a few members of Muslim community objected to overnight celebrations of Ram Navmi and removed some temple decorations. In the riots that followed 6 persons were killed.

UPA scandals and scams
Quattrocchi, the friend

Latest is the de-freezing of the personal accounts of the Bofors middleman Ottavio Quattrocchi, courtesy UPA Law Minister Shri H. R. Bhardwaj, making him richer by about Rs. 21 crores, an action which according to CBI sources, amounts to weakening of the case against him. In a party where not a leaf can swing without the nod of the supreme leader, the conclusions are obvious. Shri Bhardwaj could not have dared to do what he did to help Quattrocchi without the implicit nod of the supreme leader. That she was too happy was proved when Congress, instead of removing him for the wrong done, not only defended him but also awarded him with a nomination for Rajya Sabha for a record sixth time. It is worth recalling that Quattrocchi’s personal relations with Smt. Sonia Gandhi are too well-known.

Mitrokhin disclosures

Publication of the book Mitrokhin Archive II earlier last year exposed the shameful history of Congress and Communist sell-out of national security for money. According to the book, during 1975, the black year of Smt. Indira Gandhi’s dictatorial Emergency, more than one crore rubles were spent by KGB to support Smt. Gandhi. It is also alleged that KGB files identify by name, the 21 non-communist politicians, including four ministers in Government, whose campaigns in 1977 elections were funded by KGB. Records also state that between 1975 and early 1977 KGB had paid more than 80 lakh rupees directly to CPI in various instalments. Till date, neither Congress nor the Communist parties have apologised to the nation.

Volcker report stigma

The disclosures made by the Committee headed by Paul Volcker naming the Congress and then External Affairs Minister Shri Natwar Singh among the non-contractual beneficiaries in the Iraqi oil sales in 2001 is yet another stigma on the Congress-led UPA.

Initially, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh defended Natwar Singh but he was made to quit to save Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi because Congress Party was equally involved in the scandal and this could not have happened without her consent and knowledge.

Scorpene Deal On March 20 the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) blasted “the biggest defence scandal so far, one far bigger than the Bofors scam”, accusing the Congress-led UPA government of an underhand Rs. 18,798 crore Scorpene submarine deal with a French firm and demanded that it be immediately scrapped and a “credible” judicial probe instituted to bring out the truth.

‘Secularists’ demand dreaded terrorist’s release

That the Congress, UPA partners and the Left parties were hand in glove with each other in competing for minority appeasement was once again proved, beyond doubt, when the Congress-led UDF government in Kerala moved a resolution on March 16, 2006 for the release of dreaded terrorist Abdul Nasser Madani not only charged with harbouring the blasts accused, including Ooma Babu alias Majid and others allegedly involved in serial explosions that shook Coimbatore in February 1998 just ahead of the arrival of Shri L. K. Advani for an election rally killing 59 and maiming another 200 innocent persons, but also with liaisoning with Pakistan’s ISI for terror training of Al Umma activists. With an eye on the State assembly elections after about two months, the ruling party and the Left opposition vied with each other to earn the sympathy of Muslim voters. The resolution was passed unanimously.

M.F. Hussain versus Danish cartoons

When painter M. F. Hussain, hurt Hindu feelings by caricaturing Hindu goddesses and Bharatmata in the nude, many of our present ‘secularists’ preferred silence. But when some derogatory controversial cartoons of Prophet Mohammad were published in far away Denmark and there was furore. A senior journalist, Shri Alok Tomar, was arrested for hurting the feelings of the minority community by reproducing the cartoons in his magazines.

Conclusion

Citizens of a country elect a government for national prosperity, financial stability and social security. People need a representative government which provides protection to the life and property of citizens, provides employment, food, shelter and safeguards the society. The Congress-led UPA Government has failed on all these fronts and has left the people feeling cheated. The UPA Government has, in effect, proved to be an “Unholy Political Alliance”, as BJP President Shri Rajnath Singh put it.