BJP ,slow on the block

Dec 2014
Like many a   formula Indian movie,new  releases come with different titles but largely unchanged scripts. Congress in UPA-I with lesser seats earned good reputation, but mislaid it in UPA-II, with a far larger tally. It had lost the will to sustain, gave up parliamentary toil  in the LS just on adverse arithmetic, and met its nadir. After creating legislative impasse for close to two years and a campaign high on promises the BJP  reaped its electoral rewards . Six months down the line,the BJP is proving to be no better.It is as much stuck in the mud  in the RS,as the Congress was in the LS .The PM is a rare visitor to the Houses as the party finds greater use for him as a Pracharak . The economy trundles along.The all round lack of progress and direction in the government ,is sought to be muted by it through bringing in one  contentious issue after another. The Opposition  by ,compulsion or design, abets in this ,much as  the BJP had done earlier  What we see now , few months into NDA, could well be a rerun of the last years of UPA-II.We seem to have  miscalculated that the BJP was elected to power because it claimed to be very capable .It appears that we have now received a replacement no better than the  defective Congress.Electorate must henceforth learn to read a political warranty,with greater circumspection.