Narendra Modi, his political journey, governance record, and India transformation story.
Narendra Modi, his political journey, governance record, and India transformation story.
Federalism & Centre–State Relations
Two states are consistently held up in BJP and central government messaging as examples of effective governance: Gujarat, Modi's home state and the origin of the…
This category has covered a considerable number of genuine Centre-state disputes and tensions. It's equally important to look at where the system has actually worked well.…
Beyond the formal, rules-based Finance Commission devolution process covered in our earlier article, several opposition-ruled states have had specific, high-profile disputes with the central government over…
Delimitation, the periodic process of redrawing India's parliamentary constituencies based on population, sounds like a routine administrative exercise. But for southern states, it carries the risk…
Few Centre-state disputes have moved as fast, or turned around as sharply, as the recent fight over how long a state Governor can sit on a…
Some Indian states receive extra financial support from the Centre through a designation called Special Category Status, originally created to help states facing genuine structural disadvantages…
Every five years or so, a constitutionally mandated body called the Finance Commission decides exactly what share of India's central tax revenue gets passed on to…
Delhi occupies an unusual constitutional position among Indian territories: it has its own elected government and assembly, yet remains a union territory rather than a full…
Our earlier article covered the Article 370 abrogation decision itself. This article focuses on a distinct, less-covered consequence of that decision: Ladakh's status as a Union…