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Irrespective of Election Outcome   What is more crucial for Indian Democracy? - Strong Leader or Strong Institutions By: Vijay Sardana We always talk to strong government is required in the country, why we don’t say we need strong institutions in the country. In the last 70 years, we have destroyed the institutions and glorified the individuals. History is full of such examples when individuals become more powerful than the institutions, the society and the country suffered and suffered badly. Are we learning from history or not, if not we are in the process of repeating it? What happens when institutions are undermined or destroyed? This is what constitution  expects from all political parties. What our political parties have delivered by destroying institutions ? Voice of common man is suppressed and ignored and parliament and multiparty democracy is ignored. This is dangerous for highly diversified country like India. What is expected from the New Gove

2019 Indian Parliamentary Election Testing time for Indian Voters and its impact on Political Outcomes Why exit polls may go wrong? By: Vijay Sardana Last five years were very interesting in Indian political space. Many experiments were done by voters and that has made Indian democracy more mature. Please consider all elections including national, states and local elections in the last five years as part of political experiments by Indian voters. Indian Citizens and Voters will display their true political wisdom and learning from last 5 years in 2019 which many political debates on TV and in media is not discussing because channels are taking political positions and not allowing logical discourse to happen. In Indian mainline media, economics is suppressing sociology. Nothing wrong from their angle, they also need money to survive. After all, governments (states + union + local bodies) spend billions of dollars on media advertisements in 5 years and all want to enj

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National Elections without Agenda -  Turning Point for Indian Politics and  Democracy By: Vijay Sardana Please look at the scale of democratic process and what we all are discussing today? National elections of India in 2019 are elections without agenda. Just think over and please indicate what are the major issues flagged by the political parties. Ruling party is not talking about achievements. They are also not sharing their development vision for India. Opposition  also failed in presenting alternate governance model and has no vision for India except highlighting the failure of ruling government. The only agenda all political parties have is how much tax-payers money they want to waste to bribe  voters in the name of free doles to come to power. Why these elections are turning point for Indian democracy? The only thing which has become crucial in these General Election is that elections are polarised between two camps i.e right wing and left wing. T

Rs. 4.5 Lakhs Crore (USD 63 Billion) Consumption Boost for FMCG and Capital Goods, GST collection will also get a boost By: Vijay Sardana The interim budget is dominated by provisions for the rural farm sector and the working-class population, it means a major boost to a consumption economy. If everything goes as per plan, Indian economy will get additional Rs. 310 crores cashflow every day due to budget provisions only in consumer goods, agri-inputs and services industries. This budget will support consumption sector by increasing the disposable income in the hands of the middle and lower middle class because of the income support schemes, interest subvention and tax exemptions and this should domestic economic output, capacity utilization of factories and employment generation. The increased cash in the system because of the government income augmenting measures could have an inflationary impact which may boost farmers income which could, however, be restricted