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The wheel of politics keeps turning. The Congress peaked in UPA-I , on an ascendant growth curve. The UPA-II then ,inexplicably switched over to the extremes of ' inclusiveness ' losing sight of growth and touching nadir.The BJP has since  come back riding high on the   the growth arc  of the cycle  this time.While its majority strength and its innate economic tenet might well enable a GDP recovery ,the weak Opposition makes NDA vulnerable to socio-political and economic imbalances as the regime progresses, because of the ideology derived from the Parivar. If governance suffered under the UPA due to a diffraction  in authority, the NDA in turn could  be susceptible to too much of it being centralised.Even the best political outfit and redoubtable leaders must go through a learning curve.Modi and his NDA -II too will travel this path and political entities will cyclically keep following one another.

  That the Left could manage three decades of rule in Bengal only on inclusiveness and no growth, will remain a political enigma.In the process it has been reduced to a political bonzai  and may well stay that way for a long while.The AAP was born amidst the rush of national concerns that both the Congress and the BJP failed to address in their decade long battle of political one-upmanship. One reason why this fledgling party though high on spirits is lost in self contradictions ,unable to identify its core purpose / ideology.Lost in  prioritising  its agenda, it is internally divided .The good thing its founders seem to be determined to stick together and the party should  duly evolve over time.It is essential it does as the vacuum created by the Left is better filled by a political entity than by the likes of 'Arab spring '.It was with much effort that political the center stage was reclaimed by Parliament, from Jantar Mantar !.
Pub Financial Express Jun 12