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Prime Minister Modi is no longer the corporate mascot that he was in 2014

In 2014, Modi promised deliverance from policy paralysis, corruption and economic mismanagement. That promise has started to unravel

Prime Minister Narendra Modi emplanes for Brazil, in New Delhi on Tuesday 	Photo: PTI
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi emplanes for Brazil, in New Delhi on Tuesday Photo: PTI

Bharat Bhushan
Is it possible that India Inc. no longer sees Prime Minister Narendra Modi as its lucky-mascot? Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s article in The Hindu, suggests this may be so. Dr Singh’s analysis of India’s economic slowdown reflects the desperation of corporates. It is not something they could not have done themselves.

Corporate leaders in India do not speak out against the government. Not even when one of corporate India’s emerging faces, Café Coffee Day founder V G Siddartha, committed suicide because of alleged harassment by tax authorities. Some industry leaders like Rahul Bajaj, Narayana Murthy and Kiran Majumdar Shaw
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