Trends in Politics

Shashidhar Patil

Nehru era

One party dominance

Indira era starts

Emergency

Then Rajiv Gandhi era

Beginning of coalition politics

caste , religion, corruption in Indian politics

Voters demanding governance

Rise of federalism

Terms in Indian Politics

Politics

Coalition Politics

Planning Commission

Inclusive Growth

Opposition Party

Silence

India’s favourite sport

Ally is never a friend and a firend need not be an ally

Keeps poverty in India low, by definition

Every party will get an opportunity to stand in the way of growth

A party guilty of exactly the same things it accuses government of

Those who shall speak the lease shall be the PM longest

Indian society is vulnerable

Irreversibility of choices

Largest ever rural to urban transition

Identity wars

Medieval

Federalism

Most Indian politics

is mathematics

State is increasingly getting

society is getting more

intolerant

tolerant

scope of what is offensive is increasing

Narrative of victimhood

Icons and not their thoughts

Political Insecurity

Political consensus, not normative

Expanding categories of backwardness

Moderate middle has expanded

System will not excuse what it excused in 1984

Women

“Ethical maturity of society will be measured by how women fare in it”

Law creates its own fear

Judiciary is political

unbiased

“In India we don’t get punishement after due process

due process is the punishment”

Lack of intellectual

self-confidence

Serious lack of intellectual self-confidence

Lack of credibility of media and academics

“It is hard to imagine India achieving any

measure of greatness, if it

cannot take its own measure.”

Centre and States

Power

Education

Urbanisation

Devolution

In mess

Not one national class university

Imbalances

Not done

“States should grow

in importance but

they are not panacea to all our

problems”

Foreign Policy

Effective management of international environment

Central challenges cut across disciplines

Governance revolution

Vertical accountability

Secrecy

Discretion

Centralisation

Horizontal accountability

RTI, mobilisation of Information

Elimination of arbitrariness

Federalism

“Congress is trying to win, BJP is trying to win,

I hope in the end India wins”

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