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Four years of UPA

The UPA government should be congratulated on holding the fort for four years. Even though differences cropped up between the UPA and its supporting parties over the India-U.S. nuclear deal, the UPA leadership succeeded in keeping them together. Another feather in the UPA government’s cap is the absence of large-scale communal riots. The introduction of the women’s reservation bill which was long-pending is indeed a laudable achievement. The UPA can take pride in its four years of governance.

Anand Radhakrishnan,

Aluva

The UPA government’s performance is certainly not up to the expectations generated at the time of elections. The rise in the prices of essential commodities has made the lives of the poor and the middle classes extremely difficult. Unless the trend is arrested before the next election, anti-incumbency will seal the UPA’s fate.

Mudgal Venkatesh,

Gulbarga

There can be no better advice to the UPA than what the article “Will it be the UPA’s last supper?” (May 21) provides — it should put its house in order if it wants to win the next election. It has only a year’s time to overcome and solve many crucial problems facing the nation. The aggravating agrarian crisis, price rise and rising inflation, and terrorism that rears its head from time to time, have led to a general feeling of despondency among the people. The UPA cannot rest on its past laurels such as the farm loan waiver and the enactment of the NREGA and the RTI. If it wants to convince the masses that it deserves a second chance, it needs to work as a team with all its partners foregoing regional political interests.

Shahabuddin Nadeem,

Bangalore

The people’s rejection of the BJP’s ‘Shining India’ campaign was the electoral expression of their disillusionment with the policies of globalisation and neo-liberalism that favoured a few at the cost of many. The Left parties that support the UPA government from outside have acted as a speed-breaker on its neo-liberal agenda. The UPA government has, more or less, followed the NDA’s policies. Its response to price rise shows where its loyalties lie.

N. Sekar,

Salem

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