Don’t blame democracy

The popular discourse on policy paralysis has got conflated with the discourse on corruption and the fact that the Opposition is on the offensive post the 2G/CWG scams. There is an obvious link since the government needs the Opposition to pass critical Bills, which is what Mukesh Ambani referred to when he said on Sunday that there needed to be a minimum agreement between political parties. To be able to get this broad consensus is a good thing, but the larger issue is that much of the paralysis is of the government’s own making and has little to do with the lack of Opposition support or the increased Opposition unity—indeed there’s not that much evidence of great policy-making before the 2G/CWG scams came to the fore. 

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