Freebies before election Not right

"Ideas famine vs Modi machine" NATIONAL INTEREST SHEKHAR GUPTA "Are freebies the way forward for the Opposition? Anything they promise, Modi will improve on the offer. And since he has the power of the incumbent, his promise will be taken more seriously Heading for the first anniversary of his third third term in office, Narendra Modi looks and sounds supremely confident and assured again. The diffidence and stress lines you could see after that verdict of 240 seats are gone, Haryana and Maharashtra victories helped, of course as did the disarray in the INDIA bloc. But there is a deeper and more substantive Justification for this new confidence, bordering on smugness. It is the bankruptcy of new ideas from his challengers. There is nobody no leader, party, or idea that threatens to disrupt national politics today. This is the politics of doldrums. Nothing is rocking the boat, Modi's BJP is the boat in this case and he's happy with where the boat is. " "Are freebies the way forward for the Opposition? Anything they promise, Modi will improve on the offer. By now, Modi's challengers should under stand the downside of reducing their politics to transactionalism. A transactional voter has no lay alty. They will go for the highest bidder. Where does the Opposition go then? They can not fight Modi on religion, no matter how many temples they visit or which livery or threads they wear. Nationalism? Don't even try. That platform should have been built over the past 11 years. You cari't do it now, when the last train has left. Caste is the flavour of the season for Modi's rivals. Apart from caste-based parties, the Congress can achieve zilch playing the caste census card. A party designed to be a large umbrella under which all get a share of power and thrive looks like a caricature talking of caste census. Brings back to me the Immortal line that Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto spoke when he migrated to Pakistan: "When Punjabis (the vast majority in Pakistan) speak Urdu, it sounds as if they're lying." The Congress tending to be a caste-census party, and offering social justice through that, sounds just like that: As if it's lying. They are also digging a most around what should have been their expanding mainstreaming politics. " By special arrangement with The Print more  

Offering freebies before elections can be problematic because it may influence voters' decisions unfairly and undermine the democratic process. It risks turning elections into contests of who can offer the most incentives rather than focusing on policies and governance. This practice can also strain public finances and set unsustainable precedents. more  

BJP state governments, especially those heading for elections, are already expanding agricultural MSP. The Haryana government, for example, has extended MSP to all 24 major crops from the previous 14. If you check out the full-page advertisements in newspapers these days, you also read a plethora of other freebies in Haryana: LPG cylinders at just ₹500 to 4.6 million families. A free milk scheme for schoolgirls, and the waiver of canal water cess. Then, there is free bus travel for all members of families with incomes of up to 21 lakh for up to 1,000 kilometres a month. The BJP had been ridiculing similar schemes in Delhi, Karnataka and Telangana. This was the definition of revdi. more  

We all must wake up and make enough noise to be heard for stopping all freebies in any form, particularly based on gender, caste or so, all freebies from tax payers money before elections or even promise of freebies during elections must be made illegal and we through these forums must take this up at all levels please JAGO BHARAT JAGO more  

pl analyse budget of Delhi Govt to find out where is 700 cr? more