@Patrician
Let me clear up something, I become eligible to vote in 2003, didn't vote in the 2004 elections and voted for the TDP candidate in HYD constituency despite an INC candidate being there.
What my post mentioned was the plain facts about India's growth rate. Does it solve everything? no. But when someone says that the growth rate has gone down, I think its anyone who knows the facts to correct it because he/she may be mistaken.
I think we truly need a centre right party. I don't agree with the Right to Food bill. I think the NAC passing this bill is foolish and a bigger burden on the state and gives more chances for corruption.
The best way to check corruption is not to have a big govt. in the first place. Get rid of all the subsidy and the PDS system. But generate micro and SME companies so that jobs are created for the poor. Use the private sector to get rid of poverty rather than give subsidies.
But do we have a party bold enough to advocate these reforms? Unfortunately no.
The Congress at present adopts a centrist approach of some FDI reforms but also populist subsidy measures. The BJP does pretty much the same. When they were in power, they didn't reform the PDS system and actually made it bigger. In BJP ruled states, you again have the freebie culture of free bikes and term deposits of girl childs and what not. And cutting down on subsidies also cuts down on corruption. The free bike scheme has become a massive gaping whole with major corruption scandals around it as well, just like any other populist scheme.
The BJP at least in the economic arena is just a B-team of the Congress. And this is unfortunate. Maybe we need a revival of the Swatantrata party which was a truly centre right party and advocated a market economy early on. But maybe Im just a dreamer.
Let me clear up something, I become eligible to vote in 2003, didn't vote in the 2004 elections and voted for the TDP candidate in HYD constituency despite an INC candidate being there.
What my post mentioned was the plain facts about India's growth rate. Does it solve everything? no. But when someone says that the growth rate has gone down, I think its anyone who knows the facts to correct it because he/she may be mistaken.
I think we truly need a centre right party. I don't agree with the Right to Food bill. I think the NAC passing this bill is foolish and a bigger burden on the state and gives more chances for corruption.
The best way to check corruption is not to have a big govt. in the first place. Get rid of all the subsidy and the PDS system. But generate micro and SME companies so that jobs are created for the poor. Use the private sector to get rid of poverty rather than give subsidies.
But do we have a party bold enough to advocate these reforms? Unfortunately no.
The Congress at present adopts a centrist approach of some FDI reforms but also populist subsidy measures. The BJP does pretty much the same. When they were in power, they didn't reform the PDS system and actually made it bigger. In BJP ruled states, you again have the freebie culture of free bikes and term deposits of girl childs and what not. And cutting down on subsidies also cuts down on corruption. The free bike scheme has become a massive gaping whole with major corruption scandals around it as well, just like any other populist scheme.
The BJP at least in the economic arena is just a B-team of the Congress. And this is unfortunate. Maybe we need a revival of the Swatantrata party which was a truly centre right party and advocated a market economy early on. But maybe Im just a dreamer.