Feb 01, 2019 07:34:12 (IST)
A year before the Lok Sabha elections in 2019, then finance minister P Chidambaram had announced a massive loan waiver of Rs 60,000 crore, which on hindsight election analysts say was a key factor that helped the UPA under then prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh retain power for another five years. A similar move by the NDA government today cannot be ruled out.