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AA Edit | With The Promise Of Freebies, Fairytale Season Before Polls

AA Edit | With The Promise Of Freebies, Fairytale Season Before Polls

A party like the ruling DMK, apart from increasing the assistance that they have been extending to well-defined sections...

30 March 2026 11:58 PM IST

AA Edit | Do States Count Freebies Cost?

AA Edit | Do States Count Freebies' Cost?

Before getting sucked into argument over the efficacy of such payouts, it must be said that the inducements are...

15 Feb 2026 9:43 PM IST

AA Edit | Poll States: Welcome Lack Of Bias

AA Edit | Poll States: Welcome Lack Of Bias

Regardless of the cost to the exchequer, offers of freebies are coming with the speed of knots this season, which means...

1 Feb 2026 11:32 PM IST

AA Edit | Realistic look at freebies needed

AA Edit | Realistic look at freebies needed

The war of words between the Congress and the BJP over the caution advised by Congress president Mallikarjun...

4 Nov 2024 12:10 AM IST

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists gather during a roadshow of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the seventh phase of the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections in Varanasi. (Photo: AFP)

Freebies to allure voters, welfarism policy intervention: BJP in...

The party has no objections to the poll panel's idea that political parties should also submit financial viability of...

27 Oct 2022 1:05 PM IST

Freebies become the fig leaf that corrupt politicians and political parties use to cover their sins of omission and commission while seeking electoral support. (Representational Image/ AP)

Sanjaya Baru | Rising freebies: The fiscal price of political failures

When political parties promise free television sets, kitchenware and suchlike, they are using the taxpayer's money to...

2 May 2022 12:41 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the inauguration of Bundelkhand Expressway, in Jalaun, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Freebie' politics: Can Opp. use PM tactics...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched an all-out blitzkrieg against the politics of promising freebies or giveaways...

29 July 2022 12:55 AM IST

Supreme Court (PTI)

SC asks if Finance Commission can regulate revenue to states to...

'It is a very serious issue. What is your suggestion on how you are going to control it?,' court asked the government...

27 July 2022 2:14 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the inauguration of Bundelkhand Expressway, in Jalaun, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Freebie culture dangerous for country: Modi

Modi asserted that those with freebies culture will never build new expressways, new airports or defence corridors

17 July 2022 2:09 AM IST

Freebies become the fig leaf that corrupt politicians and political parties use to cover their sins of omission and commission while seeking electoral support. (Representational Image/ AP)

AA Edit | Fight freebies, respect welfare

There is no such thing as a free lunch, of course, and therefore, no such thing as a freebie. It only means someone else...

28 Aug 2022 11:37 PM IST

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was addressing a state-level function organised here to observe the birth anniversary of Dr B.R. Ambedkar. (Photo: Twitter)

AA Edit | Freebies vs essentials row rages ahead of elections

Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan is literally on a freebie spree, offering liberal help to voters, especially women.

20 Oct 2023 11:58 PM IST

Manish Tewari | Freebies and welfare: Time to define critical...

Freebies need to be defined clearly and the definition tailored precisely

15 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST