A commonly cited example of the outgoing government’s alleged economic mismanagement was its sugar-price policy. Powerful sugarcane cooperatives, led by major UPA supporters, supposedly drove the government to fix extravagant prices and write off sugar farmers’ bad debts, leading to over-production.
这些宣言有多么大而无当，不出几周就表露无遗。下台政府的一个经常被引用的经济治理不当的例子是其糖价政策。据信，强大的糖业公司在UPA主要支持者的领导下，要求政府将价格维持在过高水平，并减记糖农的坏账，从而导致生产过剩。