An early Budget for Elections 2019

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, given his penchant for abbreviations, might have liked to put it as the new ‘GPS’ or guiding principle of his government in preparation for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

It looks as if the Modi government has initiated its re-election strategy a couple of years early with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s budget 2016 speech promising Gas (LPG cylinders to below poverty line families), Power (to all un-electrified villages) and Sadak (road connectivity to all villages) by 2018-19.