No matter who gets the keys to Islamabad’s govt mansions, Pakistan will be in heaps of trouble for months, perhaps years, to come. Pakistan’s polycrisis includes a lurching economy, security in Pak’s western borders going.
Nitish Kumar’s makeover from Sushasan Babu to Palturam has political pundits fretting. And meme makers making merry. But what do voters in Bihar think of its longest-serving CM’s latest political somersault? Speaking to a cross-section.
Once upon a time there was a group of two dozen bakers, who would bake cakes all day long. One day, they said, why not bake a giant cake together. It sounded brilliant. A huge.
Convention has it that FM does not introduce any substantial measures in an interim budget, and if she were to do so a new government could easily change course. A conventional FM would be expected.
Politically savvy and fiscally prudent, budget bets on India Inc investing more. Will that happen? Budgets are embedded in a political context. The salient political message in Modi’s government’s last budget before the Lok Sabha.