Why the UPA's 2009 poll campaign is a BIG laugh

May 24, 2012 15:44

In the run-up to the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress had a chirpy ad campaign which showed a presumably middle-income family of three on a scooter. The wife gets orgasmic and tells her husband that they can save more because prices of everything have fallen -- specifically mentioning -- petrol, LPG, food prices etc. Watch

Ironically, these are precisely the sticking points, (apart from corruption and scams and zero governance) which is seeing the UPA-II floundering.

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