{"id":3226,"date":"2009-03-11T15:37:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T10:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2009-03-11T15:45:49","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T10:15:49","slug":"look-out-for-presidential-chief-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200903\/look-out-for-presidential-chief-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Out for Presidential Chief Ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have piled on Sagarika Ghose earlier, but I must give credit when she is right. I think that she is essentially right here<\/a>.\u00a0 I had written earlier that <\/a><\/p>\n

Very few politicians have tried to break out of this cycle, and I believe that the person with the greatest chance of succeeding is Modi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The other person who is succeeding is Naveen Patnaik.\u00a0\u00a0 Neither Modi nor Patnaik has an immediate chance of succeeding at the national level, but then, I’d expect a vacuum at the national level for the next few years anyway. In the next few years, I believe that we will see many more of these presidential Chief Ministers, i.e. Chief Ministers who bypass intermediaries and forge a direct contract with their constituents.\u00a0 The contract is: I provide you good governance and you vote for me. This will replace the multi-level contracts based on various caste allegiences that are now the norm. The\u00a0Central Government will be a confederacy installed by these Chief Ministers.<\/p>\n

And, this is something for the BJP to think of. 15 years ago, the BJP would have been the natural place for all these Chief Ministers to be in ( or be in alliance with). Now, it is no longer true.\u00a0 Karnataka is one place where they are really badly screwing up.\u00a0 There, if you had a presidential Chief\u00a0 Minister like Modi, they could have achieved a permanent majority just as they have achieved in Gujarat. Instead, they have Yedyurappa.<\/p>\n

Also, this moral policing is a bad mistake. If you are wondering how this point is related to the previous ones, trust me, it is related. I have just skipped a few steps in the reasoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have piled on Sagarika Ghose earlier, but I must give credit when she is right. I think that she is essentially right here.\u00a0 I had written earlier that Very few politicians have tried to break out of this cycle, and I believe that the person with the greatest chance of succeeding is Modi. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[273,275,279,53,278,248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3228,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/3228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}