Best of BS Opinion: Taking states on board, focus on agri-exports & more

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There is an unnoticed domestic policy paradox in Narendra Modi’s second term. Initiatives aimed at helping India Inc – corporate tax cuts, the scrapping of retrospective capital gains tax or even the telecom package – have been passed with relative ease. But those that require state cooperation -- such as agri-laws and labour laws – have been stalled for want of adequate discussion. A meeting of the long-forgotten Inter-State Council would go a long way towards fostering the kind of cooperative federalism that India badly needs, A K Bhattacharya suggests. Read it here

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