Invading Armies have a bad habit. When they are forced to retreat from an occupied country, they leave behind them a trail of destruction - it is called the scorched earth policy.
Iraq purportedly burned the oil wells in Kuwait in 1991 leaving behind raging fire and pillowing smoke. (Though there is another version to this which claims that Iraqis actually did not do this, but the Kuwaitis on taking back the Country lit fire to some old unproductive oil wells to claim damages from Iraq- let that be)
The UPA 1 Government did not think they will be returned to power in 2009. They decided to leave a scorched economy behind them with the fervent hope of putting the next Government (Ostenably a non-Congress one, as per their assessment) on the mat. Towards this end, then announced a massive outlay for the Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (knowing fully well that it would be a severe drain on the economy) and the Rs 60,000 Crore Farm Loan Waiver Scheme (which was never intended to benefit any farmers). Many acclaimed these schemes, not bothering to read between the lines. The MGNREGS was meant to be implemented over the next 5 years, while Farm loan waiver over the next 4 years - clearly indicating that while UPA 1 took the credit, the next Government would have been forced to carry the can. This was apart from the massive subsidies given to the Industry as a stimulus package. The ideal scenario envisioned by UPA1 is what is being played out now - deficit spiralling, inflation uncontrollable, growth stunted, unemployment on the rise and economy in a bloody mess. And the blame would have been on an opposition government. This would have given a solid platform for Congress and UPA to claim the right to set right things that have gone wrong in the 2014 election and opposition would have been totally discredited. Clever- right?
But by a quirk of fate, UPA was reelected and to their horror had to set right a mess that they created in the first place. They just did not have a contingency plan in place to tackly this and the rest, as they say, is history. UPA 2, ravaged by Corruption Scams and the consequences of the UPA 1 disastrous policies, blundered on, taking India back to the 1980s.
But Congress and UPA (they are synonymous) appear to have not learned the lesson. All intelligence inputs have indicated that UPA and Congress would struggle to touch the 150 mark. Rajastan, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat, which gave them most seats are the States where they expect to be thrashed.And there are no States that can make up for the seats to be lost here. More or less certain that they will lose power, they are back to playing their dirty tricks on the economy and gone ahead with a plethora of non-productive schemes, i.e - Food Security Bill (it is amusing to note that Congress was single handedly responsible for destroying the Public Distribution System across the country. Now they are replacing the same a new one. How ironic!), widening the scope of the leaky, inefficient MGNREGS (which has pushed farm labour input cost up, apart from making rural labour lazy - did you listen to the 'Prince Dumbo Rahul Gandhi' statement? - Work for 100 days, eat Roti and Vote Congress. A future PM (god forbid) asking a productive asset to idle for 265 days!!!! How is that for increasing productivity?. But then what does he know about productivity), creation of Telengana (ensuring unrest in the region for decades to come), announcement of 7th Pay Commission (without tackling the need to make the Government functioning leaner and linking pay rise to productivity) that is expected to create an additional financial burden of 1.5% of the GDP, when the Country is already reeling under massive fiscal deficit and finally the passing of the Land Bill, that will ensure that no major projects are able to acquire land for ages.
Apart from looting the Country all these years, Congress and UPA are hell bent on ensuring India do not progress at all in the coming years. If this is not being anti-national, I dont know what else is.
The only way out is to give such a thrashing to Congress and its allies in the next election that the party disintegrates totally.
Indians! Arise! Awake!
