How did winning the 1980 general elections change Indira Gandhi's political and social ideologies?
An excerpt from ‘India In Search Of Glory: Political Calculus and Economy,’ by Ashok K Lahiri.
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Situating constituency funding
Situating constituency funding It is said that the absence of effective local governments creates a gap in service delivery at the grassroots The writer is a senior political economist based in Islamabad. He can be reached at [email protected] Going against his past protestations, the Prime Minister succumbed to constituency pressure by promising development funds of half a billion each to MNAs/MPAs. Luckily, timely court intervention has rescued him from the ignominy. Constituency funding is a means to buy political support. But the practice was not started by politicians. A rules-based mec...
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