evidence: In real terms, MSP increase has been moderate in both UPA & NDA governments The management of food inflation has been much better during the NDA government and despite the Covid-19 pandemic and the global crisis in the wake of the Russian war on Ukraine, it has been able to hold the inflation at 5.1 percent vis-à-vis 8.1 percent average inflation during the UPA regime. [...] Siraj Hussain is a former Union Agriculture Secretary. He is Advisor, Food Processing FICCI. Views are personal and do not represent the stand of this publication.