I loved today’s editorial caption in the New Indian Express. It says “Spanner in the Reformist Wheel”. In 5 words this title has rightly expressed the truth about UPA Government in it’s second avatar. Big bang reforms like deregulation of petroleum sector, 100% FDI in Retail, increase of FDI in insurance have all fallen on the back burner in less than 1 month of the Government taking over. Allies like Trinamool and DMK have also fiddled in with their objections on SEZs and Disinvestment. This was supposed to be the Government with a greater vigour for reforms. But the first few feelers coming out of the Government express the mood that their old leftist allies seem to have a left of shadow of their socialist ideas into the UPA Vein. The UPA immediately needs to get its act together and put on the gas pedal on Reforms and get out of this socialist shadow.
