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Prabhakar Tamilarasu, based out of Chennai, is a Special Correspondent. He covers politics, policy and governance in Tamil Nadu, with a special focus on ground reporting on the social, cultural developments in the state. He joined ThePrint in March 2024. Prabhakar can be reached at prabhakar.t@theprint.in
Muthukrishnan’s “dream” is absolute absurdity:
* BJ has mandatory step-down age of 75, since NLT 2012 — for which Modi voted, that he wouldn’t have to compete with LK Advani for the post — officiously he’ll be 74 this year, ergo will have to step down next year (he was 63/64 when he became PM). Likely Amit Shah (officiously 60 this year) will fill-in 2025 – 2029
* Adityanath getting 15 years…he was allowed second term as CM to keep him in Lakhnau, ergo away from Delhi, only…no difficulty extending that till earlier of his being clobbered or his getting tired of waiting to be PM
* Annamalai completing 5 – 15 years as TN’s CM, 😂🤣😂🤣 — he has no chance of getting CM chair there.
Sitharaman has one and only one incentive that she must beat all year on year revenue estimates of Indian Govt. Corporation. So keep milking the middle class by increasing existing taxes and slapping new taxes and cess. She is unable to increase the “volume” of people paying taxes, so she keep on increasing the “prices”, but here the prices are mandatory which we call taxes so u will have buy anyway.
This govt has unable to expand the section of middle class. She proudly boasts that “ budget “ has become 3 times in 10 years, but she forgets to tell about how much the budget of an ordinary family increased. Remember 2 times income for farmers in 2022.