Here’s why Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Vajpayee’s memorial seemed to anger BJP and how Narsimha Rao remains a political tool for the saffron party to attack Congress.
(Archived document, may contain errors) No. 117 October 30, 1991 U-SPONDING TO MUIS MT.LCOME ECONOARC REFURNE INTRODUCTION Socialism, it is now universally recognized, is thoroughly discredited as an eco- nomic model across Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. There it did enormous eco- nomic damage. Yet nowhere has the combination of socialist economic and anti-trade policies proved more of a failure to more people than in India. There the victims of eco- nomic failure am counted in the hundreds of millions.
While making Ashok Gehlot Congress president triggered a crisis, removing Sitaram Kesri from the post was a bigger challenge. Here is the story of the 1998 coup and what happened before and after that reshaped the party.