Between May 2014 and November 2016 the Modi government was in continuity mode and everyone complained that it wasn’t going fast enough. After that it has adopted “bash on regardless” mode, which has sometimes been hugely disruptive.
Whether it was demonetisation or GST or triple talaq or Article 370 or the latest amendment to the citizenship law, the government has chosen to force change in a series of sudden and massive strokes rather than gradually. Even the JNU fee hike was massive — which is tenth in the order of smalls — from Rs 20 per month for a single room
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