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BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla T
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan he imminent completion of the second term of the Bharatiya
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, Janata Party (BJP)-dominated NDA coalition government in
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); New Delhi and the prospect of General Election 2024 scheduled
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. for this summer have aroused a flood of comment relating to its
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); track record in political, societal and economy management.
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta In general, the party under the charismatic leadership of Prime Minister
(Bhubaneswar); Shyama Thakore (London)
Narendra Modi has received high marks for political strategy which has en-
EDITOR sured that the PM’s public approval rating is way ahead of actual and potential
Dilip Thakore rivals. For economy management also, the PM’s record is good. The opposi-
MANAGING EDITOR tion Congress Party’s contention — led by former Union finance minister P.
Summiya Yasmeen Chidambaram — that average GDP growth during the decade of Congress-led
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR UPA coalition rule (2004-2014) averaged 6.8 percent against 5.6 percent of
Sundar Anand the Modi government doesn’t make allowance for shutdown of the economy
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi during the Covid-19 pandemic years (2020-21) when the country experienced
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi) negative growth.
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) On the whole, the record of the BJP on the metric of economic growth has
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