Congress bhagao not good enough

Negative campaigns, as in they-never-did-this, may not be the best election strategy and, to that extent, BJP’s new campaign-chief Narendra Modi’s acceptance speech in Goa on Sunday seemed a bit strange. But, with three election victories in Gujarat under his belt, Modi obviously knows a thing or two about election strategies, so quibbling is probably a bad idea. In any case, the larger point Modi has been making in all his speeches as prime ministerial-hopeful, from the one at Shri Ram College to the one at CNBC, is that the UPA has badly blunted India’s edge, the edge the BJP under Atal Bihari Vajpayee sharpened when, in FY04, India’s GDP rose to 8.1%.

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