(As PM Narendra Modi completes three years in office, The Quint debates whether promises made in 2014 have been fulfilled by the NDA government. This is the Counterview. You may read the View by BJP Vice-President Vinay Sahasrabuddhe here.)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has now been in office for three years. As the end of his term draws near, the BJP is already gearing up for the next round of elections. What standards do we deploy, then, to assess the NDA’s performance during these three years? Has the economy performed well? Is the law and order situation better? Are citizens satisfied? Has the Modi government, in effect, delivered on their campaign promises? These are the questions that need to be answered.
Our last prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, was considered to be slightly better than Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s puppet. The prime minister before that, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was sworn in as the leader of a bloc of some two dozen parties. He loomed large on the political scene but the nation didn’t expect any miracles from him in the way it does from Modi. Manmohan Singh’s failure to combat widespread bureaucratic corruption along with Modi’s marketing skills created the juggernaut in the form of our current PM.