: Bharat Rashtra Samithi can be a game-changer for India #IndiaNEWS #News By JR Janumpalli The idea of floating Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), an all-India political party, was hanging in the air for

Bharat Rashtra Samithi can be a game-changer for India #IndiaNEWS #News
By JR Janumpalli
The idea of floating Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), an all-India political party, was hanging in the air for some time now. It was finally launched on October 5. The idea could be executed because the national parties such as Congress and BJP, who have been ruling the country, have lost their federal character. Several regional parties in States have emerged in the last several years, creating a political confusion in the country. But the last eight years of BJP’s rule in the country and the rapid weakening of Congress during this period have exposed a political vacuum. The BRS can fill this vacuum.
The Congress has been reduced to a shadow of its former self and has its governments only in a few States. The BJP came to power at the Centre in the name of NDA and has grown into a political leviathan. It has its own or participating governments in most States, which have become the extensions of the BJP-led Central government. The non-BJP State governments are at the receiving end and have been subjected to the dictates of the Central BJP government.
It has upset the federal nature of the relationship between the Central and State governments, which was the arrangement of the Constitution. In that context, the idea of BRS is the concept of a national party that can act as a federal national political party. In that the national party can think, plan and strategise to achieve inclusive national development. The State units can do it for the States and the plans are dovetailed into national plans, reviving the federal relationship between the Centre and States, as intended by the Constitution.
If we review the working of the BJP-led Central government in the last eight years, we will know the inferences. The overall performance of the nation is going down continuously from 2014, when it came to power. Its GDP growth rate and per capita GDP growth rate, apart from many other national indices, are on the decline. The focus of the party is winning elections or manipulating other political parties in the States to extend its political power as much as possible. The budget-making and equitable distribution of central funds to the States have problems. Even in the world democracy index, the country is sliding.
The debate of the party is not on economic development — of improving the nation’s economy, improving the economic lot to States, or monitoring and evaluating the progress of backward States. The debate is on the past governments, past history and controversial historical incidents, which were asked to be closed by the Supreme Court. Majority nationalism and the non-implementable citizenship Acts, National Registers etc.

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