The Congress on Wednesday came out with a “report card” of the first 15 days of the third edition of the Narendra Modi-led NDA government, seeking to highlight the issues that the ruling dispensation had been trying to brush under the carpet.

The Congress underscored the series of paper leaks since June 9 when the new government was sworn in, with the NEET scam and paper leak, UGC-NET paper leak and the postponement of the CSIR-NET and NEET-PG exams making it to the report card.

The party also highlighted the train crash in Jalpaiguri, three terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, increase in food prices, 15 per cent hike in toll tax, increase in CNG price, the rupee hitting a historic low and a 43 per cent decline in foreign direct investiments.

Though the differences within the Sangh parivar do not fall strictly within the realm of governance, the Congress — which appears to have borrowed a leaf from the BJP copybook in remaining in a combative mode 24x7 — has chosen to include the outfit too. The list therefore featured the internal strife in the BJP coming out in the public domain and the differences the ruling party has with its parent RSS. Also thrown into the mix were “differences” the BJP is having with other constituents in the NDA though till now there is no evidence of this.

The government too prepared its own report card, which was, predictably,
poles apart from that of the Congress.

The government’s report card included the approval of development of the Varanasi airport and a greenfield deep draft major port in Maharashtra, release of PM Kisan’s 17th installment, inauguration of the new campus of Nalanda University, increase in the minimum support price for 14 kharif crops, reopening all gates of the Jagannath temple in Odisha and the trial run on the newly constructed Chenab rail bridge.