Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Friday.
The Bharatiya Janata Party and Aam Aadmi Party’s performances in the recent Assembly polls point to a compelling new dynamic among the electorate that transcends the standard template of caste and religious identity to welfarist gains. In this context, our lead editorial notes, though welfarism may be a vote catcher, it rests on the ability of the government to pay the bills. So far, no regime has shown how to bridge this gap without faster growth. This may be the bigger challenge going forward as more and more