UPA-II: Reform or perish

If the decision to liberalise foreign direct investment, or FDI, in the retail sector was supposed to dissipate the widespread feeling that policy-making and governance have become paralysed under the second United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, then it has quite spectacularly failed to accomplish that task. Instead, angry allies of the UPA are complaining they were not consulted, there are murmurs of dissent within the ruling Congress, and the Opposition is unitedly determined to make a weak government pay — whether inside Parliament or outside. 

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