Shivam Vij compares NDA-2 with UPA-2 in scroll.in
If the BJP government is going to defend all indefensible things by saying the Congress did it too, why indeed did we boot out the Congress? If the Congress victimised an IAS officer for exposing Robert Vadra’s alleged corruption, this government is not letting a lawyer become a judge because he did things inconvenient to the party in the past: he argued in the matter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh’s fake encounter.
If the Congress regime saw cases regarding Bofors closed, the NDA is moving to close cases against Modi’s right-hand man, Amit Shah. What is moral about deliberately leaking an Intelligence Bureau report calling inconvenient non-profits anti-nationals and curbing their right to receive donations from abroad?
From day one, the prime minister has shown dynamism in his approach towards foreign policy and yet there’s already a big crisis on foreign shores. Indian workers in Iraq are being kidnapped and the government has made little headway.
You can imagine what the Bhartiya Janta Party would have been saying if it had been the Congress handling that crisis. It would have been called a weak government that was making India a weak state, one with no foreign policy leverage. How exactly is a “nationalist” government’s approach to this hostage crisis different from what any other?