Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
Elections were due in Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand within a few months of the May 2014 victory. So the first Budget was a tame affair. The calculation would have been, Let us win these three important states, we will open the spigot for reforms in the next Budget. Then AAP swept Delhi in Feb 2015. Bihar in autumn that year would have further chilled the reformist ardour. So the force and political capital generated by this victory should be used to push sensible, urgently needed reforms. All politics is about compromise, working across party lines. It matters not a bit that there is no majority in the Rajya Sabha. There are sensible people in the Congress. The regional parties would welcome the ripple from higher growth in their states as well. Aisi shandaar vijay se Taj Mahal bannna chahiye, sirf toilets nahin …
Socialist Modi will not do land and labour reforms, leftists will commit suicide if he does.
Elections were due in Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand within a few months of the May 2014 victory. So the first Budget was a tame affair. The calculation would have been, Let us win these three important states, we will open the spigot for reforms in the next Budget. Then AAP swept Delhi in Feb 2015. Bihar in autumn that year would have further chilled the reformist ardour. So the force and political capital generated by this victory should be used to push sensible, urgently needed reforms. All politics is about compromise, working across party lines. It matters not a bit that there is no majority in the Rajya Sabha. There are sensible people in the Congress. The regional parties would welcome the ripple from higher growth in their states as well. Aisi shandaar vijay se Taj Mahal bannna chahiye, sirf toilets nahin …