The UPA's achievements despite global inflation creating a dent is actually praisworthy as noted by Business Standard:
"Start with the performance of the economy. Its growth rate last year has been upped from 8.7 per cent to 9 per cent, taking the average rate of growth in the four years of the Manmohan Singh government to 8.9 per cent. I cannot think of any other government that would not make a bit of a noise about such stellar success, and draw comparisons with the record of its predecessor (5.9 per cent over six years) — showing a jump of 50 per cent. Or take agriculture, whose annual growth during the UPA term has been 3.6 per cent — again a jump of nearly 50 per cent, and the best record since the 1980s."
Though urban India bears the brunt of inflation, farmers have more money in their hands like never seen before from the 80s. Urban India may have progressing at the cost of rural India for 3 decades now. So some re-distribution of wealth is a silver lining to inflation
