Other common demands include greater share in Union cabinet. No objection to UCC but there should be discussions first on population control, says senior JD(U) leader K.C. Tyagi.
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Liberty without accountability is the freedom of the fool. Our concept of freedom will remain impoverished until it is deepened by liberal education, wrote Nani A Palkhivala in 1995.
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In terms of hard political bargaining ,the two coalition partners can extract more in terms of Cabinet berths than 12 MPs for one, 16 or 18 for the other, would justify. In its anxiety to seal a swift majority, the BJP would likely concede a lot more than it did to the Shiv Sena in the first term in the state. 2. However, anything that crushes fiscal consolidation, now being attempted after the pandemic, is something the Centre should resist. Mr Naidu undertook construction of a fancy new capital, Amaravati, for a state that had lost the resource base of Hyderabad to Telangana. Bihar already receives more than seven rupees for each rupee that it contributes to the central tax pool. 3. This will be an uneasy alliance, the two new partners are senior, astute leaders. However, they are not dealing with Santa Claus.
In terms of hard political bargaining ,the two coalition partners can extract more in terms of Cabinet berths than 12 MPs for one, 16 or 18 for the other, would justify. In its anxiety to seal a swift majority, the BJP would likely concede a lot more than it did to the Shiv Sena in the first term in the state. 2. However, anything that crushes fiscal consolidation, now being attempted after the pandemic, is something the Centre should resist. Mr Naidu undertook construction of a fancy new capital, Amaravati, for a state that had lost the resource base of Hyderabad to Telangana. Bihar already receives more than seven rupees for each rupee that it contributes to the central tax pool. 3. This will be an uneasy alliance, the two new partners are senior, astute leaders. However, they are not dealing with Santa Claus.