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Ep 336: Shruti Rajagopalan Dives Into Delimitation

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Union Government's Incentives for Fiscal Decentralization

BJP stand to gain electorally potentially in the regions where they already have a strong hold. If we break up the constituencies bjp would have still won you know post the breakup then they have an electoral win but what good is a union government that doesn't have tax resources to distribute and right now the union government raises taxes from the states. The biggest federal compromise that it has hatched is the gst so my sense is the gSt compromise will completely collapse. States are going to start creating borders around themselves fiscal borders around themselves, he says.

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