Let us turn to evaluating the performance of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) over the last nine years.Political stability: Since entering an era of coalition politics in 1991, India saw a fair amount of fluidity from 1996 to 2004 - an era that saw non-Congress governments and coalition's at the Centre. However, if one was to juxtapose those eight years with the nine plus years of UPA rule from May 2004 till now, you would discern that political instability as a thought, construct or a concept has almost but disappeared from terra firma of the Indian public discourse.Social cohesion: The idea of India has been underpinned by the core values that constitute the philosophical construct of natural rights and humanism. They are the fundamental freedoms of thought, expression, religious beliefs, democratic choice and a variety of others that fall within the remit of this overarching construct. The India that the UPA inherited in 2004 was scarred by a state-sponsored pogrom perpetrated

Manish Tewari

Manish Tewari

Manish Tewari

'Perform or perish must be the new mantra for India'