Supreme Court’s concerns about irrational freebies are valid but it shouldn’t get enmeshed in fractious ‘revdi’ debate. What’s freebie for one can be welfare for another and vice versa. Until voters see its disastrous consequences, judicial or legal remedies will be ineffective. SC has more pressing matters to dispose of.
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