To be fair to the BJP, 2,3 and 4 have been good, but for a brief hikje in the onion price - The food had been in excess and the inflation reached the all time low of below 3% under the BJP rule ... and by the way Global Slowdown happen during the BJP rule, not to mention 9/11
The farmers were fighting for the minimum support price those days becaus there was excess foodgrain production and no takers!
The Gas/Petrol prices didnt spiral out of control.
I am not saying they managed everything well .. but they did well on the Food and the Economy fronts ... When BJP tookover, the Dollar value was around 45 and when the Congress tookover it came down to 41 .. and the Dollar was strong in 2004!