@jsensarma @unraveaero @rishabhm Not to *citizens*. It is an optical deceit to hurt citizens and cover it up by pretending that it is tough medicine to states. Like I said Union has the courage of conviction to say X policy is right or wrong and we remove that from domain of states (and either centralise or….

@jsensarma @unraveaero @rishabhm …decentralise it). But what it cannot do is to say that Union’s obligation to citizens somehow disappears because they elected irresponsible state govts. That’s ex post and convenient

@jsensarma @unraveaero @rishabhm So at least be honest about what you are recommending. Take a specific scheme - Ujjwala. UP has X beneficiaries. You are saying give them money only for X/3. Because UP’s taxes only fund that much. So UP’s rich can fund UP’s poor but not Tamil Naidu’s rich. Why exactly? We are…

@jsensarma @unraveaero @rishabhm …one country. UP and TN do not have any significance - they exist for the convenience of Indian citizens. So why this weird notion that only UP rich can fund UP’s poor and not Tamil Naidu’s rich?