These six people have created a political climate more
difficult for business, indeed more hostile to business, than at any
time since the mid-1980s, says T N Ninan.
Kapil Sibal said in Parliament the other day that politicians are the most accountable among all categories of people.
So, how accountable do six people, who between them have run the economy these past five years, feel as they survey the mess around them? All but one of them spoke this past week.
Sonia Gandhi told Parliament that if there was no money for the “food security” programme, then money would have to be found - but she did not care to suggest how. She also said that if the public distribution system had its defects, they would have to be fixed - again, the details were beneath her.
If the isolation at 10 Janpath is not like living on Mars, the Congress president must know that the economy faces urgent challenges, and that the last things it needs are irresponsible laws; so she must tell us whether she really thinks that two-thirds of Indians go to bed hungry. Accountability, Mr Sibal?
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Kapil Sibal said in Parliament the other day that politicians are the most accountable among all categories of people.
So, how accountable do six people, who between them have run the economy these past five years, feel as they survey the mess around them? All but one of them spoke this past week.
Sonia Gandhi told Parliament that if there was no money for the “food security” programme, then money would have to be found - but she did not care to suggest how. She also said that if the public distribution system had its defects, they would have to be fixed - again, the details were beneath her.
If the isolation at 10 Janpath is not like living on Mars, the Congress president must know that the economy faces urgent challenges, and that the last things it needs are irresponsible laws; so she must tell us whether she really thinks that two-thirds of Indians go to bed hungry. Accountability, Mr Sibal?
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Image: Sonia Gandhi with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Photographs: Reuters