Now 2008 is a different kind of challenge. There is this huge problem of farmers... so that is a different kind of challenge. I don’t think you can compare one with the other.

• Given the political contours of your coalition government, what would you have done differently or more boldly if such a coalition was not there.

Again hypothetical. I’m in a coalition. We are bound by an NCMP. I knew that when I took on this job. We know that when we run the government. So we trim our sails according to the wind... what is the point asking what I would have done (differently)... that is hypothetical, that is hypothetical... we trim our sails according to the wind. And it has been a good wind. Our batting average is 8.8 per cent.

• I agree. But if the wind was stronger, you could have gone further?

That is hypothetical. Our batting average with this wind is 8.8 per cent. The batting average of the NDA government was 5.8 per cent.