Economic growth is 5.5% over the last 7 years, much lower than UPA’s 7.8%
Jobs have vanished. The youth are unemployed. It is going to get worse with AI.
Rural distress and disruption is still high. It will get exacerbated with rising input costs and lower cash household balances
Inflation is headed northwards; oil prices are soaring on account of the West Asia war. The Rupee is at Rs 95 against the US$
India’s foreign policy is, to put it kindly, disastrous with a capital D
Corruption has been institutionalized; Electoral Bonds is proof of that.
A few Big Crony Capitalists are owning the country
Income inequality is extreme; the middle-class too is sandwiched.
The environmental collapse makes us the hottest and most polluted nation on the planet periodically, but the government has no vision for the impending climate catastrophe on the way.
Institutions of governance are fully compromised: transparency is zero. The Big Media is non-existent. Democracy is on a ventilator. Fear reigns.
Atrocities on women, and the SC/ST communities are disconcertingly high.
Hate -speeches and violence against Muslims and other minorities are reaching alarming levels and worse, they are being normalized. Ku Klux Klan comparisons are being made globally.
2029 is round the corner. The Congress/INDIA alliance have a limited window to stage a comeback before India transmogrifies into a country that was not foreseen by the founding fathers of this great nation.
