Back
54_Polly DataP.pdf
Research report

More power to the States (sub-national governments) : Who will do that in India?

BFD

  • Fribourg : IFF, 2026
Indian federation
pro-federal
regional political party
more autonomy
regional federalists
diehard federalists
English In recent years, grave concerns have been expressed from many quarters at deepening unitary features of Indian federation and consequent deterioration of Indian federal ethos since 2014 when a national party-the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) got the absolute majority in two successive parliamentary elections held in 2014 & 2019 without having to depend on regional forces in forming Central governments while ending the two and a half decades long coalition era (1989-2014). During the period of coalition, pro-federal regional political parties started being part of the various Central governments. And hence they not only had some policy making space but also enjoyed greater bargaining power thereby managed to exert various types of bothquantitative and qualitative influences on the Central polity. Therefore, the question remains as to why such continuous assault on Indian federal spirit could not be checked. The study opines that regional federalists so far have come up with immediate interest-driven, short-lived hence occasional outbursts on the question of the States’ (sub-national governments’) autonomy either collectively or individually. These trends might have led to reinforcing unitary bias of Indian federation instead of setting an example of better ‘federal political culture’.
Collections
Faculty
Faculté de droit
Department
Institut du Fédéralisme
Language
  • English
Classification
Law, jurisprudence
Series statement
  • IFF Working Paper Online ; 54
License
CC BY
Open access status
diamond
Identifiers
Persistent URL
https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/334823
Statistics
Document views: 41 File downloads:
  • 54_Polly DataP.pdf: 59