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Memo to Sonia: Cash transfer may not get you a win in 2014
Jagannathan •The direct cash transfer scheme will work if implemented properly over the next three to four years. It won't deliver political dividends by 2014.
LPG cash subsidy: How oil cos will pay for UPA re-election
Business •The PMO is planning to pay the LPG cash subsidy for only one cylinder upfront: this means the oil companies will bear a part of the UPA's re-election costs
Cash transfers: Come polls, NAC views go into dustbin
Jagannathan •The UPA and Sonia Gandhi are turning a deaf year to their own National Advisory Council's apprehensions on cash transfers.
Dash for cash: PMO, Chidu and Ramesh aren't on same page
Jagannathan •It's becoming increasingly clear that the Congress has jumped into direct cash transfers without even having got all stakeholders on the same page
Dash for cash: Why Congress must look before its leaps
Jagannathan •Cash transfers may be vote-winners, but if good politics must translate to good economics the Congress should do more homework on it.
The murky motivations behind Cong's love of cash transfers
Vivek •Despite the touted benefits of the cash transfers scheme, it is actually likely to be little more than a Rahul Gandhi election sop, with negative consequences for the fiscal deficit
Cong rush for UID-based cash subsidy is like legal voter bribery
Jagannathan •The UPA's rush to implement cash transfers in lieu of subsidies can also be seen as a pre-election reform that will be like a fully legal bribe to the voter
Nilekani wants to change your status from beggar to customer
Jagannathan •If Nandan Nilekani's proposals to replace subsidies on cooking gas, fuel and food with cash are implemented, you will go from being a mere beneficiary to a true customer with cash to spend.
Resistance to Modi's ambitious welfare schemes: Why the PM needs to get bolder
Fp Archives •Economists at brokerage CLSA estimate potential savings at $13-$15 billion
Mayawati blows PM bugle, asks party workers to aim for Red Fort
Fp Archives •Addressing a rally of party workers here, the former UP chief minister asked her party workers to ensure a big victory for BSP in the next general elections