A-Z of UPA after three years

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Inflation: When you grow you will have inflation. If you check that inflation, you will deflate growth. That is what has happened.

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Jokes: It is bad for authority and legitimacy of a government when it becomes the butt for jokes. The solution is not to ban jokes, but get work done.

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Kapil Sibal: See J above. The man whose defence of the government made people more convinced that they were trying to hide something.

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Legislation that is pending because government mangers cannot come to an agreement with their coalition partners or the opposition. See G for Governance above.

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Mamata: The person no sane government should touch with a barge pole. Her dogma will be the death of the Indian economic dream. Dump her now.

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National Advisory Council: Or the Non-Accountable Council — a bunch of civil society big wigs, whose heart overwhelms their brain.

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Opposition: see M above, and T below.

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Prime Minister: Whose silence is deafening.

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Questionable Deals: Is there any deal that this government has done that is not questionable? Do they have logical answers rather than pulling up the drawbridge? Can they share those answers with the people?

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Raja: The telecom minister who took a policy aimed at increasing tele-density — the first come first serve policy — and murdered it, while seniors in the cabinet did nothing. If you auction all resources the cost of doing business will increase.