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My guess is that Modi isn't very comfortable with people of intellect like Shourie who also happen to be very independent & strong minded. I don't buy other explanations. Not just Shourie. Modi has made no other appointment of people of such type.

Not whether it remains controversial or not, the BJP has tried to dilute that very same law using other means. In any case, that wasn't the only law that the BJP held up. They did it to many other reforms too.

I think they played him which partly explains his bitterness. They told him that he was being considered, used him to talk Modi & his government up, then left him out in the cold without displaying even the slightest courtesy. While what he says about the government is largely accurate, if a...

Not really, they were the ones who destroyed the US-India nuclear deal even if they now would like to see the law changed. They didn't care much for India's interests then, I warned then that the Congress would pay them back in their own coin.

Err......why would anyone expect them to be? Not like the BJP was any different when they were in the opposition, Jailtey himself was the prime proponent of that behaviour. Which was why the reforms should have come through executive actions & getting the states that you control to do the other...

That was why it was so important to push through reforms early that might have started showing real effect by about the 4th years of this government's term. True of all opposition, including the BJP.

Also religious polarisation, just not the religion the BJP wanted polarised alone.

I hope you are right. I'm no great fan of the BJP as a party. If the Congress has nutters as leaders, the BJP behaves like a nutty party, sometimes seeming more like a lunatic asylum than a party. Modi was supposed to be different. It was his mandate. This is not just a once in a lifetime...

Or more likely, they will do nothing of what you suggest & do some more PR. Arun Shourie was right when he said that this government was more interested in managing headlines than managing the country.

No point blaming Jaitley. He was not the one given a mandate by the people of India. If Modi squandered it by making wrong choices, including appointing the wrong people, the fault is not of the people who are so selected. It is the fault of the selector. I don't buy this Jaitley didn't want...

Yup, buddy. Nothing matters. 2014 was just another regular election which will automatically replicate itself in 2019...... the mandate was not historic & a once in a lifetime opportunity.....Modi was elected to only talk & complain about the opposition........

Yup. That's all that we need now. More PR. Maybe the plan really was to lose the election in Bihar and look like fools. Maybe it is the plan to have the PM's credibility in tatters. :tup: Next plan - to get booted out in 2019......

There is a difference between good projections & believing your own PR. Modi, unfortunately, seems to have succumbed to hubris in believing that he was somehow the messiah. Should have just grabbed the opportunity & worked like hell for 5 years instead of trying desperately to win in 2014-15...

Road building etc are not reforms. they are project management. There is a difference between asking the states to do their own thing after failure in parliament & something quite different to doing it right at the beginning. The states could have done their own thing, bringing it to parliament...

When it works, everyone & his uncle becomes a genius. When it doesn't, you run the risk of looking like a chump. Amit Shah can only run an excellent campaign on the ground but I'm not sure he managed that. especially with the Pakistan references to the end, smacked of desperation. He wasn't...

By doing those reforms that you could without going through parliament. BJP states could have altered the land law and even labour laws.. More reforms in the financial system could have been followed up. That was the Arun Shourie argument, one that I have argued for consistently over the last...

A very high chance that you might be right. I have been saying that the time for reforms was the first couple of years. Wasted opportunity.

Even now, we have no idea of what they will take away from this election. Modi either needs to step up to the plate & deliver or we have to give up on this guy. Living on hope forever is pointless.

You were wrong, As was half the media. No big deal. You need to be more open to people differing with your viewpoints though.

I'm very unhappy because it happened like I feared. Modi & his strategists screwed up big time. I have been telling that trying desperately for Bihar before reforms & not going ahead with massive changes (not tinkering) is a very high risk strategy (you & I have had discussions on that). That...