Looking beyond crises

Lack of strategic vision in the NDA has caused it to fail at economic management

One of the biggest challenges to political leaders in office, according to former British prime minister Tony Blair, is to focus on long-term strategy. A day in government, he argues, is so full of emerging challenges that require immediate responses that managing and incorporating long-term vision can become the last priority.

For India’s current leadership, this must be a painfully familiar problem. The pandemic, which has forced almost all the world’s economies to slow and has had a devastating impact on production in India, might appear to be just the latest in a series of economic events that need managing