Populism will sink us

According to newspaper reports, in his foreword to the 12th Five Year Plan — the Plan document is yet to be printed although the Plan covers the period 2012-17 — Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has written that meeting India’s growth aspirations “is a challenge for our democratic system” and that “we have to prove that vigorously competitive politics in a democracy can achieve a sufficient consensus to be able to implement the difficult but necessary policy choices we face”.

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