Set up by Lal bahadur Shastri, the Santhanam Committee's key concern was that corruption, once limited to the lower rungs of the bureaucracy, had now infected the All India Services and political leadership.
In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.
Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
An interesting point brought out by Pranab….Gujarat is perhaps the first test of a BJP government facing election where the incumbency factor could go either way. Modi’s image is being packaged as a proxy CM to shield the current incumbent(s). No one knows how far will it work. Modi’s image appears quite bruised compared to the freshness 0f expectations in 2014. Another factor that most analysts are missing out is the swing among the youth who appear fairly disillusioned with no growth in jobs and none in the near horizon. Nevertheless, the opposition is distinctively fractured to take any advantage of the incumbency factor.
An interesting point brought out by Pranab….Gujarat is perhaps the first test of a BJP government facing election where the incumbency factor could go either way. Modi’s image is being packaged as a proxy CM to shield the current incumbent(s). No one knows how far will it work. Modi’s image appears quite bruised compared to the freshness 0f expectations in 2014. Another factor that most analysts are missing out is the swing among the youth who appear fairly disillusioned with no growth in jobs and none in the near horizon. Nevertheless, the opposition is distinctively fractured to take any advantage of the incumbency factor.