Mani Shankar Aiyar / ndtv
As the Mahagathbandhan (the Great Alliance) rounds into the last lap of the Bihar Marathon, Nitish Kumar has given an interview to The Economic Times that tellingly delineates the emerging architecture of Opposition politics at the national level and, therefore deserves wider consideration than it has perhaps received.
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Nitish observes, "Sarkar bana lena saral hai, desh chalana mushkil (It is easy to form the government, difficult to govern the country)". 500 days of slogan-mongering by the Modi government have shown that alliteration, acronyms and jumlas are not enough; there has to be delivery. But where there has been assiduous image-building, there has been little effective governance. Old schemes have been renamed and trotted out as new, but there is a complete want of imagination in giving substance to the Modi brand. more
As the Mahagathbandhan (the Great Alliance) rounds into the last lap of the Bihar Marathon, Nitish Kumar has given an interview to The Economic Times that tellingly delineates the emerging architecture of Opposition politics at the national level and, therefore deserves wider consideration than it has perhaps received.
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Nitish observes, "Sarkar bana lena saral hai, desh chalana mushkil (It is easy to form the government, difficult to govern the country)". 500 days of slogan-mongering by the Modi government have shown that alliteration, acronyms and jumlas are not enough; there has to be delivery. But where there has been assiduous image-building, there has been little effective governance. Old schemes have been renamed and trotted out as new, but there is a complete want of imagination in giving substance to the Modi brand. more
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