Atal Bihari Vajpayee in: M. G. Chitkara, Baṃśī Rāma Śarmā Indian Republic: Issues and Perspective, APH Publishing, 1 January 1997, p. 133
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Marx and market does not mix. By the time this realization dawns, the United FrontGovernment (UF) [headed by Deve Gowda] would have gone...the new finance minister, who was an architect of “pro-rich policy” of the erstwhile congress government, had been entrusted with the task of implementing the so-called common programme of the UF. The people are not amused by the spectacle of a Prime Minister pledging his commitment to the previous government’s policies even as he remains a hostage to the support of dogmatic communists for his survival.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee on H. D. Deve Gowda

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Marx and market does not mix. By the time this realization dawns, the United FrontGovernment (UF) [headed by Deve Gowda] would have gone...the new finance minister, who was an architect of “pro-rich policy” of the erstwhile congress government, had been entrusted with the task of implementing the so-called common programme of the UF. The people are not amused by the spectacle of a Prime Minister pledging his commitment to the previous government’s policies even as he remains a hostage to the support of dogmatic communists for his survival." in the context of "Atal Bihari Vajpayee in: M. G. Chitkara, Baṃśī Rāma Śarmā Indian Republic: Issues and Perspective, APH Publishing, 1 January 1997, p. 133" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee

About Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (December 25, 1924 - August 16, 2018) was an Indian politician who thrice served as the Prime Minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, for a period of eleven months from 1998 to 1999, and then for a full term from 1999 to 2004.