Modi’s policies – Old wine in new bottle? By Deepak Parvatiyar May 14, 2015 Rate this post At least about four months ahead of the last general elections, when the Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi had unveiled his party’s economic vision for the country, the Communist Party of India (Marxist)’s mouthpiece, People’s Democracy , had stated: “The BJP’s vision of “high growth with a mix of social welfare schemes” is nothing else but a rephrasing of the UPA’s (United Progressive Alliance government’s) agenda of “liberalisation with inclusive growth”.” Straightaway, the Marxists had accused the BJP of “aping the Congress’s trajectory of economic reforms…” Mark the word “rephrasing” and “aping”. These are strong words for a political outfit, the BJP, which fiercely positions itself as a “party with a difference” which is ideologically poles apart from the Congress. Yet, these words have returned to dog Modi merely month
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