Hindsight is the best sight. "India-shining" and "feel-good" failed to deliver the dividends mainlybecause when one looks at the performance of BJP over their five years in power, one recognizes that theyachieved nothing. They kept no promises they made to us in their pursuit of power. Whether it was constructingRam Mandir, or scrapping Muslim Personal Law (MPL), or abolishing Article 370, or eliminating Hajsubsidies--they have nothing to show for success. Of course, our growth picked up steam during the last fiveyears and India-Pakistan came closer together. But while the credit for the first goes to Narasimha Raogovernment which initiated deregulation and liberalization in a bid to open up our economy, the latter wasdictated mostly by USA and the geopolitical situation following 9/11.It has little to do with BJP, which haslargely reveled in demonizing Pakistan, though Vajpayeeji must be given some credit here. But let’s face it,he was at best doing damage-control of his party’s doings.