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Narendra Modi has already lost the electoral battle. It may sound outlandish. On May 23 the election results may portray that the BJP has emerged as the single largest party or even the BJP has won the Lok Sabha elections, but in reality the BJP has already lost the elections even before the last ballot is cast.

India-Maldives relations are now back on an even keel, after they touched their nadir during the presidency of Abdullah Yameen (2013-18). Dissent was suppressed, all opposition leaders were imprisoned, and President Mohamed Nasheed was deposed and sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. Later, he was allowed to go to England for treatment. Behind a democratic façade president Abdullah Yameen ruled the island nation with an iron hand. Relations with India deteriorated, even as relations with China flourished. Beijing’s long shadow over Maldives became longer, its grip on Maldives firmer.

Election manifestos of political parties contesting the ongoing Lok Sabha elections seem to have one thing in common. None of them, including nationally present BJP and Congress, produced an economic manifesto, clearly specifying economic goals that will push industrial investment, create new employment and income for millions of the country’s unemployed youths in the coming five years. Domestic industrial investments witnessed a down trend for almost seven consecutive years. Imports are galloping. The last five years saw a very week export growth compared to the previous 10 years. Imports are taking away domestic jobs. None of the major political parties seems to have plans to tackle it. New project investments have been the lowest in 12 quarters at about Rs 1 lakh crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2018, data from Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) showed. This number is the lowest in 14 years, since mid-2004. Economic manifestos are practically blank on such matters.

There is a hope of gain in the UPA, and there is a feel of despair in the NDA, in the second phase. The rays of hope and the corresponding ominous signs have been emanating all along the campaign period, which may affect voters on April 18, the date of voting in 97 Lok Sabha seats spread across 13 states/UTs of the country.

The governments cannot function merely as running dining cars for providing free food to a large proportion of lower class passengers because they cannot afford to pay for their food. Charity can never end poverty of anyone. Only productive use of their energies can. This was hard line approach of the Prime Minister though not expressed in so many words but in substance during his campaign in the 2014 election to gain him a huge fan club. The expanse of his fan club mostly made of middle class youth is too wide for other leader to compete with it.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is getting international awards, UAE’s highest ‘Zayed Award’ and Russia’s Order of St. Andrew the Apostle. But April 13, 2019, it struck that Modi, despite five years of globetrotting and high profile visits to international capitals including London, could not extract an apology from the British Government for the Jalianwala Bagh massacre, a demand lying in history’s vault for a century, exactly to the date.

The Narendra Modi Government has allowed the write off of the bad loans identified by the public sector banks to the tune of Rs. 5.55 lakh crore during its tenure which is 80 per cent of the total amount of Rs. 7 lakh crore during the last ten years. The figures revealed by the Reserve Bank of India repudiate the statement by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley that the UPA regime of Dr. Manmohan Singh was responsible for the bad loans and the write offs. The RBI data now reveals that out of this total of 7 lakh crore write off in the last decade, the contribution of the UPA2 regime was only 20 per cent.

BHOPAL: “I had nothing to do with the decisions related to e-tendering,” stated Kusum Mahdele, who held the Public Health Engineering Department in the ministry headed by Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Madhya Pradesh.

Modi in 2019 is a study in contrast to his own self in 2014. In 2014, he was selling to the Indian people a new hope and dream. In 2019, he is peddling fear. In his first bid to the prime ministerial office, Modi was a lot more positive. Today he is negative to the extreme.

With time medical treatment pattern has seen drastic changes. Medical education too has moved from Gurukul to the modern medical colleges and hospitals. The present day medical student does not have to roam about in the jungles in search of herbs, shrubs or animals in search of medicines. Methods of treatment have gone sea change. There has been changes in relationship between doctors and patients. Even though personal examination of the patient remains the key to reach diagnosis, the investigations have given tremendous information in to the pathology of illness and in managing the treatment.