Mr Modi's electoral balance sheet

Apart from whatever challenges the opposition parties can put up from outside, a challenge that can come from within should not be ignored

Elections are in the air. Political parties and their leaders are busy preparing for a long election season that will culminate in the general elections to be held before May 2019.

So, what does Mr Narendra Modi’s electoral balance sheet look like? What initiatives are likely to fetch him votes and what policies have upset which segments of the Indian electorate? Let us begin with an assessment of his four key economic policy initiatives of demonetisation, the goods and services tax (GST), the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) and a new monetary policy framework.

Almost two years after that decision to annul