Sadly, any chance of getting over 8% growth before 2019 is gone now. No implementation of GST and many other reforms that are pending but now stalled for the foreseeable future will keep the growth rate at present levels (6.5%-7.5%). Modi has completely squandered any opportunity he had to get these done because of his narcissism and his party's own goals.
The world is going to look far less favourably at India now- the political landscape has shifted overnight. Whilst these ret@rds ("fringe elements") were distracting from the development agenda it could still be reasonably expected that the GoI would have the momentum and ability to pursue their development agenda with these detractors being little more than a nuisance. Now the political capital he enjoyed in his early days is all gone and there is nothing left but negativity. This is the kind of backlash politicians are meant to face towards the end of their terms, he has been in office for but 18 months!
I'm sorry, but this is now nothing but a
slightly improved UPA-2. At least MMS had a legitimate excuse (in the form of Sonia Gandhi's own agenda AND an unworkable coalition) and even his performance was commendable- Modi has NO excuse, he is a self-styled "hard" man and yet he has shown he is either unable or uninterested in exercising control over his own party. Modi had a huge mandate, no party president entirely undermining him and no coalitions to deal with and look at how he has lost it. This is a truly shameful performance on his part. I'm an outsider, I was never a Modi supporter, couldn't care less for the BJP as a whole and I am entirely disenfranchised by him, I can only imagine the feelings of those ardent supporters of his who had invested so much in the "Modi wave". If you think today is painful, 2019 is going to be a bloodbath IMHO.
@Star Wars @JanjaWeed @hinduguy @Bang Galore
Now all those grandiose public appearances in foreign countries are truly bitter to swallow- his talk was big when in a foreign country, promising the moon and the stars but he couldn't even deliver the most basic of needs to his people and has lost almost all chance of doing so for the foreseeable future. Pathetic.