Despite Prime Minister Modi’s talk of ‘Team India’ spirit, over the last few years, there has been a systematic attempt to chip away at the core principles of fiscal federalism and thereby weaken the States
Supreme Court’s strong strictures against Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi — for deliberately withholding ten Bills — should serve as a warning to the Centre over its choice of Governors for non-BJP-ruled States
By laying down a condition that the Union government would not release the ‘Samagra Shiksha’ funds to the southern State until it accepts the three-language policy under the NEP, the Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan has triggered an avoidable confrontation
