The Bharatiya Janta Party or the BJP is India’s biggest national party and currently rules the country. It was formed in 1980, though its origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which was founded in 1951. The BJP has been in power since 2014, with Narendra Modi as India’s prime minister.
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UP receives highest per capita aid from centre, more than even poorer Bihar.
Single engine governments do have some handicaps but they overcome it in their own way. Some variables that have helped southern states is better rule of law, better social trust, better harmony.
Data reveals no correaltion because The Institutions that make states special are already in place and BJP courtesy of being beholden to its populist credentials have been slow to push for industrial development policies. Remember the “Suit boot ki sarkar” bull s. India needs aggressive industrial dev. and that means as a base prereq you need the Central and state govt to tbe on the same page. The problem in India is elections and the resulting anti incumbency disrupting development priorities. Crowing for “liberal democarzy” like your avg
disassociated Californian liberal waylays the reality of what p155 poor nations NEED, intelligent, concerted, coordinated and concentrated decision making authorities, WHO were HISTORICALLY decidedly very non liberal.
Imperial Japan(and later under LDP), Imperial Germany(Bismarck is the easiest example), S.Korea under Park Chung He(Trained by the IJA), Singapore under PAP(party that follows a leninist model of org, PAP oligarchy was forged in brutal environment), Taiwan under Kuomintang(Had a leninist revival post losing the mainland; under Chiang Ching Kuo and Li kwoh ting’s leadership to be specific the former of whom was ironically a trained communist in his early years), even cognitively challenged Mao and his revolutions were instrumental in decapitating(pun intended) local/regional elites which allowed for the effective implementation of the writ of Central Govt during Deng’s reforms(so when they opened up the regional leadership even as it exercised relatively independence in policy executions was in lock step with the central authority in terms of priority), This is as opposed to what happened in post soviet Russia.
So, You can kindly take your western liberal f3ti5hes, shove that up your nether regions and go back to the damp hole you crawled out of.
Federalism f3t1sh is the reason why India is damn dysfunctional. The 7th schedule is emblematic of all that is wrong with Federalism in general and India in specific. As for “Liberal Democracies” You have to be a disassociated smooth brain to argue for the promotion of liberal democracies when the most successful industrial states(Cast your mind back) attained their technological and scientific prowess under Explicitly less than democratic governance models. Regarding the “double engine” model, Its got strong precedence that it can work(Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra’s industrial dev was kicked off by regional govts taking ind. dev seriously) govt was kicked off by Congress in the 60s and 70s, But it ultimately comes down to policy execution(Which is better under NDA) and what this insufferable writer refers to as glorified bureaucracies are exactly what they should be and what India needs, Our bureaucracies are process oriented not outcome oriented like in South Korea, China, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan.
India needs extraordinary levels of centralization and concentration of power in the Executive.
In China The Central government started from a position of hyper centralization and slowly and steadily ceded control and authority as it saw fit. But In India The central govt is fundamentally weak. For example the Chinese Govt have Cities that are referred to as directly administered municipalities where the central govt can directly execute its policies, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing. All four of them are Industrial and Financial Powerhouses. For instance Shanghai Municipal Govt funded SMICs initial fabs and Given that Shanghai is a directly administered municipality I invite you to draw your own conclusions.
Parasitic and shortsighted liberal western ideologues like to pleasure themselves on their insufferable and disassociated moral superiority, Indians have more greater concerns to address these egg heads should be gagged with extreme prejudice.