“If we’d got the economy on the right track, nothing else would have mattered in 2014. It wasn’t corruption or scams, it was the economy which destroyed us in the general elections.”
― 2014: The Election That Changed India
― 2014: The Election That Changed India
“But Vajpayee was a realist. He had joined the BJP recognising that the party would never come to power during his lifetime. That did not matter so much to him. He had never been after power. Otherwise, he would have accepted Narasimha Rao’s offer, made in 1993, to join the Congress. He was happy sitting in the opposition and sticking to his principles.”
― MANDATE: WILL OF THE PEOPLE
― MANDATE: WILL OF THE PEOPLE
“It is heartening to know that, in the year 2009, Gujarat’s Chiranjeevi Scheme was awarded the Asian Innovations Award by the Wall Street Journal, and also the Prime Minister’s Award. It”
― IIMA-Day To Day Economics
― IIMA-Day To Day Economics
“If in 2009, we gave sixty paise to the Congress and forty paise to the BJP, this time, it’s eighty paise to the BJP and twenty to the Congress.”
― 2014: The Election That Changed India
― 2014: The Election That Changed India
“countered. Rahul, though, clearly seemed to lead two lives. In the day he would engage with thinkers and activists, but at night he seemed to draw comfort from being in the company of family friends from the glamorous Page Three set. Perhaps the India–Bharat divide was most in evidence in his own personality,”
― 2014: The Election That Changed India
― 2014: The Election That Changed India
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