The essential challenge before him and his country is not transitioning from a more to a less state-directed economic system, as many of those cheering Congress’s electoral victory believe. While bureaucratic excess, entrenched corruption, and other inefficiencies beg remedy, the real challenge before India is its allegiance to a twentieth-century vision of modernity.
很多国大党的支持者认为，目前印度面临根本的问题在于，如何从国有经济向市场经济的转型，如何改革目前臃肿的官僚机构，消除腐败的顽疾和其他影响效率的行为，印度面临的真正挑战在于，如何坚定地实现对21世纪现代化目标的追求。