UPA’s nine lives

If the United Progressive Alliance has survived close to nine years in office despite multiple crises and challenges, it is no thanks to any intrinsic strength. Indeed, the Manmohan Singh government has made every conceivable mistake, faced potentially ruinous scandals and scams, alienated just about every partner in the ruling alliance, and emerged none the worse for it. So perhaps the Prime Minister was not being arrogant when he spoke of his government enduring over the next year and his own determination to push through key economic reforms regardless of whether or not there was political support for it.

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