SWEEPING UP THE REMAINS
On August 5, when top Congress leaders thronged the streets of the national capital wearing black to protest unployment and the skyrocketing prices of goods, it should have logically had the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre worried. After all, the principal opposition party was raising twin issues that everyone agrees are the two biggest failures of the Modi government, according to India Today’s Mood of the Nation (MOTN) 2022 survey. Official recognition of the fact came the same day as the Reserve Bank of India admitted that inflation “persisted above the upper tolerance band”.
Like most other nations, India too has been bearing the brunt of global political and economic developments—the Russia-Ukraine war and rising crude
