Time to pack up those election ‘jumlas’

Time to pack up those election ‘jumlas’

Kick-starting the economy The new government must drive investment in infrastructure The economy needs urgent fixing, and populism is not the answer

If for nothing else, BJP President Amit Shah will go down in history as the man who introduced the word ‘jumla’ into the current Indian political lexicon. An Urdu/Hindustani word meaning ‘aggregate’ or ‘total’, thanks to Shah, the word has now come to stand for a collection of sentences signifying nothing — false promises, in other words.

The ongoing election campaign has seen its fair share of jumlas being added to the rich crop produced during the […]

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