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Podcast: Parley by The Hindu
Episode: Do coalition governments slow down the economic reforms agenda? | The Hindu parley podcast
Description: Until the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 282 seats and Prime Minister Narendra Modi rode to power, India had had coalition governments for 21 years. Ten years later, the BJP has 240 seats in the Lok Sabha and India once again has a coalition government in power. Fitch had stated that coalition politics and a weakened mandate for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) could make it challenging to pass legislation on the more ambitious parts of the reform agenda.Do coalition governments slow down the economic reforms agenda? Here we discuss the question....