BJP is the new Congress, including cow.

"Can Hindutva-based politics deliver growth over the long run, as Hindutva votaries claim? Or would it derail progress, as their opponents argue?" asks Roshan Kishore. Prof Jared Rubin has explained why the Arab world fell behind the West even though the Ottoman empire was much more advanced in every walk of life. "The rulers of the Arab world drew their legitimacy from the clergy. While this allowed the rulers to maintain order in a violent world without having to take recourse to military action very frequently, it also meant that the clergy came to have an outsized influence on Arab society and economy, stifling its growth over the long run." But why don't the elite protest? It is because "people supportive of change refrain from expressing their true preferences for fear of punishment or social opprobrium" said Prof Timur Kuran. This is known as "preference falsification". So what of India, where killing people in the name of saving cows has become commonplace, ever since this government came to power? Was the Congress any different? Not really, according to Steven Wilkinson who pointed that "whether or not the Congress party acted to suppress Hindu-Muslim conflicts in a particular region depended on the local party dynamics and the extent of Muslim support for the party in the region." Chief Minister of Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, is an ardent supporter of Muslims, suppressing news of attacks against Hindus. Ronojoy Sen wrote that the BJP is using handouts for getting votes, exactly as the Congress used to do, and forming governments in states by bribing opposition politicians. The BJP is using governors it has appointed to interfere with functioning of state governments. Kiran Bedi, who was a decorated police chief in Delhi, is spoiling her reputation as the Governor of Puducherry, by interfering with the workings of the government, while events in Nagaland have reached a level of chaos. Modi came to power promising "minimum government, maximum governance", but has he delivered? He has appointed 75 ministers at the center. Rupa Subramanya found more repression and little governance, while Yamini Aiyer wrote that the government is very good and coining slogans but poor at delivering on his rhetoric. The government is to milk oil companies, that it controls, of Rs 2 billion to build a statue to Sardar Patel. It forces companies to pay huge dividends to plug revenue gap, exactly as the Congress used to do. Farm loan waivers will cost Rs 2.57 trillion, much more than Congress spent. Populist policies carry the risk of stagflation, as during Congress regime, wrote A Nageswaran. Cow protection is a naked deception to fool people into believing that BJP is different from the Congress. Ironic that Indira Gandhi's election symbol was a cow and calf. No wonder, Fali S Nariman is reminded of June, 1975.