{"id":116311,"date":"2017-12-11T17:35:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T12:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=116311"},"modified":"2017-12-11T17:35:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T12:05:30","slug":"more-hype-than-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/more-hype-than-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"More hype than reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The &#8220;Gujarat model&#8221; was always more hype than reality. While nobody can question Gujarat&#8217;s open-for-business ethos, that had long predated Modi&#8217;s term as chief minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-116312 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Modi_6559.jpg\" alt=\"More hype than reality\" width=\"590\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Very little actual policy innovation took place during Modi&#8217;s tenure; he mainly did well at inviting large companies to set up shop in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister now runs a negative campaign, mocking the Gandhis at every turn. Sensing that Modi&#8217;s credibility on the economy has been dented, his party doesn&#8217;t mention the &#8220;Gujarat model&#8221; at all; instead, the big talking point for the BJP last month was whether or not Rahul Gandhi was a believing Hindu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-116313 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/55237329.jpg\" alt=\" More hype than reality\" width=\"507\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is Congress, meanwhile, that&#8217;s talking about jobs, development and the ease of operation for small business.<br \/>\nNo one expects Congress to win the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Gujarat model&#8221; was always more hype than reality. While nobody can question Gujarat&#8217;s open-for-business ethos, that had long predated Modi&#8217;s term as chief minister. Very little actual policy innovation took place during Modi&#8217;s tenure; he mainly did well at inviting large companies to set up shop in the state. The prime minister now runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[608,59874,59873,59875,11141,305],"class_list":["post-116311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-business","tag-gujarat-model","tag-more-hype-than-reality","tag-predated-modi","tag-prime-minister","tag-rahul-gandhi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/e4-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}