The Big Picture: Challenges for Federal Structure

Anchor- Rajat Kain

Guest-
Abhilash Khandekar, Senior Journalist
J Sai Deepak, Advocate, Supreme Court
Shekhar Iyer, Senior Journalist

we have seen instances of tussle between the agencies of central government and the state governments... The latest in the list happens to be IT raids at the offices and residence of aides of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister... which saw run-in between the CRPF officers and the state police officers...

Such instances were witnessed in West Bengal, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh as well... where the central agencies proceeded with corruption or irregularity probes...

The central agencies are formed in a federal structure and have primarily the responsibility of probing issues against government staff and serious cases referred to it by courts or by the state governments itself...

Besides the cases of corruption probe... another subject which raises issue of a federal structure is statements made by the leaders of Jammu and Kashmir centric parties on Article 370...

Now, what are the challenges before smooth cohesion in the federal structure and what is an ambit of central and state agencies... for more on this very important discussion... we are joined by

[abhishekraj-ybon]

J Sai Deepak is pure class. Always a pleasure to listen. 🙏

[dailycurrentaffairsshorts]

U can't listen J SAI DEEPAK with 2× speed ☺

[healthywealthywise]

The anchor conducted the show very smoothly given he is a novice to BIG PICTURE. When Frank Pareira took over from Late. Girish ji similar voices were heard to do away with Frank. The question is..why are we so aversive towards new comers?

[jayanti]

j sai deepak is the reason i see rstv debates. he is awwsmmmm

[ishwarsharma]

Federalism is not a umbrella for hiding corrupt government . interest of nation is more important then states of India. we are federal in body but unite in sole.

[snr]

As usual, Sir Sai Deepak is not only crystal clear in his mind abt the issues but makes the viewers/listeners also very wise about the subject at hand....

[siddharthagupta]

J sai deepak is legend in explaining legal technicalities🔥 ..thnkuh sir

[IASachin]

Dear Rs TV
With lot of respect we request u to please bring back Frank sir.
Because big picture is one of most watched show of this channel and Frank sir is important to maintain its constructivity and exploratory manoeuvre. Thanks
Ken sir must be given some other show for the time being.
Because he need to develop that skill little bit more.
Although he also try his best but it need more
Thanks

[mridulshepherd]

J Sai Deepak is pure class....
Shekhar Iyer knows nothing except for certain political kissa and stories. Had to fast forward during his exposition. For legal constitutional aspects he just says "everybody knows".

[bijoyendranarayan]

Pl elaborate on the constitutional arrangement regarding the raids
as such and the state government s.

[NishantSharma-trxl]

Hearing Kain at 2x feels normal. Hearing Kain at normal feels like I am spending hours on one discussion

[purushottamkumar]

In the matter of art 370, one political party is against it and the other party is in its support and both are campaigning for their respective stands. So how can one decide that which party's stand is threatening national integrity and action could be taken against or both parties should be given directives against their campaigning?

[everythingispossible]

EC must be unbiased in democracy, and should be informed before any cbi and ED action, and these agencies must be unbiased.
These days action is taken only against opposition, if they join the party which is in govt, that man became harishchandra, like mukul roy and others.
This is worse for democracy

[RajivKumar-dtyn]

1.financial autonomy:the states have limited source of revenue generation with uch dependence on finance commission recomendation report.

2.all India services:control of centre is dominated on their functioning
3.governer role:appointed by centre govt., has many discritionary powers. it makes functioning of the state govt difficult if in conflict ith central govt.
4.use of art 35: to dismiss the state ovt still prevelant even after SK bommai verdct eg. UK ase
5.Strong Centre vis a vis States : Centre makes policy and states implement them. Policies made from New Delhi is not adaptable to all circumstances. One size fits all approach

Consequence's : against democratic decentralization principles and weakens democracy. Development suffers

way ahead

1.States should be given more autonomy.
2. own model of overnance, bureaucracy and local govt with firm safguad
3 governer appointed with state govt role in selection

Nucleus of development has shifte to states with states like Gujrat, TN, Kerla leading in socio economic paramter. Its time for more decrition provided
to state govt to capture the demographic dividend

[bhramitaatma]

Mr IYers statements were very right and to the point. We need more upfront people like him in the debates

[neelmaybe]

I think most of the people here are not capable of understanding what Mr J Sai Deepak says. We tend to get attracted to something that we don't understand. He is indeed a great orator and makes great points but he does say some stupid things time to time hidden beneath his alluring elusive legal jargon.

[SamyakJagtap]

It is really unfortunate to see biased journalist that too on rstv. I think India has more neutral personality. Please maintain integrity on rstv

[kumargaurav]

When will we see those " money launderers " going to jail ? What are the laws.. At least 100 years for 1 lac..

[tarunkadian]

Mr. Iyer is way too Politically Biased ( and Loud too) to be called in Political Debates.
J Sai Deepak too is Right Aligning but he good and balances.

[onlyS.D.M.]

"Challenges to federal structure " title is very broad, but discussion was restricted to merely few recent events....discussion should have been broadened to include more challenges like 1-inter state water issues 2- central sponsored schemes 3- president rule 4- governors role etc