The season of promises

Together with the flow of middlemen landing in India from Dubai and the sustained efforts to bring Vijay Mallya home, the government will make the 2019 election a repeat of the 2014 one

Vikram Johri 

Vikram Johri

The events of this week brought into sharper focus the government’s strategy in an election year. First, Piyush Goyal presented a Budget that seemed interim only in name.

Targeting the rural poor and the middle class, Goyal lavished one gift after another on the back of better savings due to the government’s technological drive on subsidy distribution. Then came the drama in West Bengal. By sending Central Reserve Police Force troops to the police station where Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials probing the Saradha scam had been detained, the government ...

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First Published: Fri, February 08 2019. 20:20 IST