Promises tend to become irrelevant if care is not taken to create necessary enabling conditions to make them feasible. This is even truer of electoral promises.
Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge's job guarantee promise queers the pitch for the ruling BJP, which must now scramble to make a competitive offer. No matter who wins, this is good politics.
Restrictions on electoral speech would be unconstitutional & court-appointed expert panel on 'freebies' should focus on govts' budgetary allocations, AAP says in submission to SC.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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