Is it possible that speed of the reforms may have been too fast. Labour reforms would have been good but in a poor nation it was not urgent at this time. Reforms in the retail industry may have gotten all the big houses to eliminate small neighborhood merchants.
This is the checks and balanvces I am talking about. UPA may have decided that those reforms can be postponed in context of other pressing issues. Nuclear they waited for them to come on board but when they did not they went on their own.
Left was never part of the government. They wanted to have fun without obligations. Difference between a spouse and live-in.