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Manmohan Singh Combined Market Liberalism and Nehruvian Welfarism to Craft Modern India’s Economic Vision
3 days, 5 hours ago

Manmohan Singh Combined Market Liberalism and Nehruvian Welfarism to Craft Modern India’s Economic Vision

The Hindu  

Published : Jan 12, 2025 10:02 IST - 5 MINS READ In the tributes paid to Manmohan Singh, he has been described as the architect of economic liberalisation since he was appointed Finance Minister in 1991 by the then Prime Minister, P.V. The right-wing perspective is flawed because the Nehruvian policy regime was not socialist; it was a state capitalism …

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Keeping up with UP | BJP's welfare schemes challenge the Dalit movement's legacy
1 year, 1 month ago

Keeping up with UP | BJP's welfare schemes challenge the Dalit movement's legacy

Hindustan Times  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much-acclaimed scheme of distributing free ration to the poor under the Garib Kalyan Yojana Scheme came under attack recently from unusual quarters. Now they need economic empowerment and government schemes are only aiding in bringing in economic revolution,” Lalji Nirmal, chairman of the Ambedkar Mahasabha, told HT Badri Narayan Tiwari, director at Allahabad’s GB Pant Institute …

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PM Modi, the provider, and women labharthi
1 year, 1 month ago

PM Modi, the provider, and women labharthi

Hindustan Times  

The Bharatiya Janata Party has scored a comprehensive victory in the three Hindi Belt states — Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan — that went to the polls in November, even outperforming some of the most optimistic exit polls. In the Axis My India poll, one of the few exit polls to pick up the magnitude of the BJP’s victory in …

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Anti-incumbency, allegations of family rule, corruption mar KCR’s chances
1 year, 1 month ago

Anti-incumbency, allegations of family rule, corruption mar KCR’s chances

Hindustan Times  

Anti-incumbency, allegations of family rule, and corruption marred K Chandrashekar Rao-led Bharat Rashtra Samithi ’s chances of returning to power for a third time in a row in Telangana. “Despite successfully implementing several welfare schemes, the BRS has been rejected because people expected a much better political morality from a party built on the foundations of a mass movement,” Nageshwar …

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Forest pitch: The Hindu Editorial on the 2023 Chhattisgarh Assembly elections
1 year, 2 months ago

Forest pitch: The Hindu Editorial on the 2023 Chhattisgarh Assembly elections

The Hindu  

In Chhattisgarh, the ruling Congress has built an election plank with a mix of regional pride and welfarism. The Congress’s attempts to build a narrative around Chhattisgarhi sub-nationalism have made regional identity a key electoral theme for the first time since the State was formed in 2000. The party is also relying on its direct benefit transfer schemes such as …

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Telangana, the pioneer of welfarism in country
1 year, 4 months ago

Telangana, the pioneer of welfarism in country

The Hindu  

As the country debates the pros and cons of welfare schemes and even as a section of society views them as mere political tools to woo the voters at the cost of the economy, the Telangana government doesn’t seem to shy away from increasing the welfare net by bringing in more sections under its ambit. Furthermore, the government implemented the …

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Data | Uneven progress: Stark inter-district disparities in Tamil Nadu
1 year, 6 months ago

Data | Uneven progress: Stark inter-district disparities in Tamil Nadu

The Hindu  

Tamil Nadu is a standout performer along many socio-economic indicators compared to most States. While the argument holds merit, an analysis of district-level data shows that development is restricted to certain pockets of Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu district map This is the first story in a series of Data Points exploring inter-district disparities in southern States. Click to subscribe to …

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Welfare schemes’ deadlines advanced ahead of ’24 polls
1 year, 6 months ago

Welfare schemes’ deadlines advanced ahead of ’24 polls

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi The Narendra Modi government has embarked on an effort to accelerate coverage of its flagship welfare programmes, with ministries pushing to utilise their budgets for 2023-24 as soon as possible so as to avoid a crowding of the budgets in the run-up to March 2024, the end of the financial year, people familiar with the matter said. The …

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Competitive populism could hurt the Indian economy
1 year, 7 months ago

Competitive populism could hurt the Indian economy

Live Mint  

The economy did not play a big role in the Bharatiya Janata Party forming a government in Karnataka, but may have in its defeat. For, if political analysts have got it right, then the bigger worry for the economy is the rural Karnataka voters’ snub to the BJP’s brand of welfarism. In the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, …

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Lessons from Karnataka: for the Congress, the BJP and the rest
1 year, 8 months ago

Lessons from Karnataka: for the Congress, the BJP and the rest

The Hindu  

The outcome in Karnataka has set the tone for national politics in the run-up to the 2024 General Elections when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek a third straight term in power. In Karnataka, the Congress effectively tackled the BJP framework of politics which is a combination of welfarism, caste representation and Hindutva. Between D. K. Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah, the …

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Freebies to allure voters, welfarism a policy intervention for inclusive growth: BJP in letter to EC
2 years, 2 months ago

Freebies to allure voters, welfarism a policy intervention for inclusive growth: BJP in letter to EC

Firstpost  

Making a distinction between freebies and welfarism, the BJP has suggested in a reply to the poll panel that parties should place emphasis on voter empowerment and capacity building rather than increase the dependency of people, a party insider said. New Delhi: Making a distinction between freebies and welfarism, the BJP has suggested in a reply to the Election Commission …

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Freebies to allure voters, welfarism policy intervention: BJP in letter to EC
2 years, 2 months ago

Freebies to allure voters, welfarism policy intervention: BJP in letter to EC

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Making a distinction between freebies and welfarism, the BJP has suggested in a reply to the Election Commission that parties should place emphasis on voter empowerment and capacity building rather than increase the dependency of people, a party insider said. “The BJP has suggested that emphasis should be on empowering voters, increasing their capacity, imparting them skills to …

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Narendra Modi is weaving religion, nationalism and welfarism to create winning formula for BJP in 2024
2 years, 2 months ago

Narendra Modi is weaving religion, nationalism and welfarism to create winning formula for BJP in 2024

Firstpost  

Should India sustain a year-on-year economic growth rate of near 7 per cent GDP, it will be a harbinger of a near-certain third term for Narendra Modi as of now On 23 October, as dusk dawned on the holy city of Ayodhya, it was a solemn moment. Add to the above, should India sustain a year-on-year economic growth rate of …

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The problem of freebies and how we define them
2 years, 5 months ago

The problem of freebies and how we define them

Live Mint  

How free is a freebie? And so, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent warning about election-driven fiscal populism is well taken, especially since states finances remain weak. The PM called it a culture of distributing free revri—a sesame-filled sweet that is often tossed into bonfires at north Indian harvest festivals. Scholars have called the Modi government’s redistribution agenda ‘new welfarism’, with …

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Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Politics of ‘us’ and ‘them’: The myths and the reality
2 years, 7 months ago

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Politics of ‘us’ and ‘them’: The myths and the reality

Deccan Chronicle  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi concurrently engages with multiple narratives. Whatever be one’s political perspective, the last eight years have indisputably seen the making of a “new” India, although newness is not necessarily “good” for all. Despite the endorsement of Mr Modi’s political narrative in the face of economic hardships in 2017, the BJP failed to reach the three-figure mark in …

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Government must cut duty on fuel if global oil prices stay above $100 a barrel: CII’s Narendran
2 years, 8 months ago

Government must cut duty on fuel if global oil prices stay above $100 a barrel: CII’s Narendran

The Hindu  

The government should consider offering some relief to Indian consumers by paring excise duties on petroleum products, if global crude oil prices remain above $100 a barrel, the Confederation of Indian Industry president T.V. “If the oil prices stay about $100, then if there is something that can be done on excise duties, etc. The CII is also mooting a …

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Modi Factor to Welfarism: News18’s UP Next Had Ear to the Ground, Spotted Trends First
2 years, 10 months ago

Modi Factor to Welfarism: News18’s UP Next Had Ear to the Ground, Spotted Trends First

News 18  

Election results test not just political parties and their connect with voters but also political analysts, including myself, who track election campaigns for months and try and provide readers a sense of what voters are thinking. UP Next has repeatedly discussed the social welfare schemes initiated by the BJP government at the Centre, such as free ration, Ujjwala Yojana, pension …

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A blend of development and welfarism
2 years, 11 months ago

A blend of development and welfarism

The Hindu  

In the last eight months, various reports came out, making an inter-State comparison on development indicators. The third edition of NITI Aayog’s 2020 Sustainable Development Goals Index, whose findings were made public in June 2021, placed Tamil Nadu at the second spot. In early August, after the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation came out with its annual report …

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In a graphic: Yogi's uphill climb
2 years, 11 months ago

In a graphic: Yogi's uphill climb

India Today  

When Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath completes five years in office on March 19, 2022, he will be only the third state CM to complete a full term in office. Yogi’s record could thus be an impressive one in India’s largest, most populous and electorally most significant state. Even relatively smaller states like Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka …

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2022 UP Elections: BJP’s Welfarism-Hindutva Model Has Struck a Chord with Rural Voters
3 years, 1 month ago

2022 UP Elections: BJP’s Welfarism-Hindutva Model Has Struck a Chord with Rural Voters

News 18  

A key aspect of the battle to win Uttar Pradesh voters’ hearts and minds is about the collision between the assertion of social identities and the endeavour to sustain and build on a broader Hindu kinship. The BJP retained its partners, the Apna Dal and Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal or NISHAD and acquired many of the smaller entities …

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In the Hotly Contested Bengal Elections, Muslim Votes Can Make or Break Political Fortunes
3 years, 10 months ago

In the Hotly Contested Bengal Elections, Muslim Votes Can Make or Break Political Fortunes

News 18  

In India, the politics of identity and religion are inextricably tied to each other. The Lokniti-CSDS survey data suggests that till 2011, the Left Front’s Muslim vote share was more than 40 percent, which came down to 10 per cent in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The Trinamool Congress’ overall vote share in the 2019 elections was 43 per cent, …

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The politics of Kejriwalism
4 years, 10 months ago

The politics of Kejriwalism

The Hindu  

Philosopher of Science Paul Feyerabend’s book, Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge, questioned the previously established clarity on methods of science and the idea that new theory must be consistent with already well-established theories and must correspond with well-established facts. We see a similar discernment with Aam Aadmi Party chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s victory …

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Opinion: An open letter to PM Modi on the economy
5 years, 5 months ago

Opinion: An open letter to PM Modi on the economy

Hindustan Times  

Dear Prime Minister, The emphasis on ‘welfarism’ has created a constituency of beneficiaries of State-run programmes who don’t care about the GDP. After all, there is nothing like falling stock markets and a high tax regime on the “not more than 5,000 people in the super-rich category” to make industry suddenly discover their vocal chords. I feel that your own …

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Modi’s welfarism: Some action, a lot of emotion
5 years, 7 months ago

Modi’s welfarism: Some action, a lot of emotion

Deccan Chronicle  

How do you mix, shake and stir Hindutva with welfare politics to come up with a winning cocktail that guarantees you a landslide victory in the elections? The PM created multiple touch points with some of India’s poorest citizens through a slew of government welfare schemes like Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan, Ayushman Bharat …

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