Do you feel the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government is going to follow what its predecessors have done?
In a way, the quick succession of governments is a blessing in disguise. Because the incubation period of any reform process is two-three years. The successive governments have defended it. So, it becomes easy for those who come later to continue. Are you worried about the current crises like the stoppage of funds and the imposition of sanctions? Will it in anyway affect the Indian economy? In a very short term, yes. If nothing else, the projects that are in the pipeline will suffer because of the uncertain situation. But I don’t think that the effect is going to last for more than six months. After that, I would imagine that the equations will go back to normalcy. And by then, hopefully, India will sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and gets it out of the way. Let’s hope that by then economics will be back on the BJP’s agenda again. Unfortunately we have put international politics ahead of the economic agenda now. But that will change after six months. Do you expect the BJP govern
