All the Governments—the pre-split Congress, the first Indira Government, the Emergency Government, the Janata Government and today’s second Indira Government—have shut their eyes to the damage which the controls are doing. All they see is the advantage of these controls to the politicians. Hence, in spite of any desire they may feel to eliminate restrictions on the economy and to make progress on the economic front, they neither wish nor dare to reduce any of those controls or restrictions which effectively inhibit business.74
