Should we prepare for a 70s rerun ?
The present government has successfully moved India back to the nineties.
- The era of shortages is back ( diesel/power/LPG)
- Rupee is nosediving
- Fiscal deficit is alarming
- Inflation is back in double digits & continues to remain there
- Kashmir is back in the political centre stage
- Will our taxes sky rocket ?( Marginal Tax rate was as high as 97.5% in 1971 !)
- Will ULCA, FERA and other such acts make a comeback ?
- Will banks be nationalized once more ?
- Will Gold controls be reimposed ( I know it is a late 60s act rather than a 70s one )
- Will possessing 1000 rupee notes become illegal again ?
- A Congress/Left would push us back to the seventies,
- A Congress/Riff Raff would slowly move us in the direction of the noughties
- A Congress majority would put us clearly in the noughties
- A BJP/Riff Raff combo would also move us in the noughties direction
- A BJP majority would put us clearly in the noughties
- A Riff Raff with outside support from either the Congress/BJP would leave us in status quo ( i.e stuck firmly in the nineties)
- A Riff Raff/Left combo could even take us back to the seventies in double quick time