As the Narendra Modi Government completed two years in office, it could well be asked: Has it been two years since the BJP stopped campaigning and started governing — reallyIJ That said, two years is too short a time to take stock of a Government that has unveiled a plethora of pronouncements. But the contrast between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his predecessor Manmohan Singh is already apparent in many ways. Singh was mocked for his silence and Modi is being lampooned for talking too much.
Grand successes, bitter disappointments, political misadventures and some course-corrections: It's been a roller-coaster ride for the NDA. With 40 per cent of his tenure behind him, Modi might have emerged with his popularity intact, but that of his Government is somewhat fading. His innovative, out-of-the-box thinking and game-changing schemes have not been matched by the bureaucratic efforts and action of some of his own Ministers and Chief Ministers. Overall, the balance sheet shows strengths in governance but liabilities in politics.