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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

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 17th Indian Cooperative Congress, in New Delhi, Saturday, July 1, 2023. (PTI)

AA Edit | BJP in MP gives the lie to PM's tall talk on freebies

The pattern evident in Indian electoral politics in the last two decades has been that people reward parties whose...

3 July 2023 12:05 AM IST