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A political alternative needs a plan

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you saw my numbers for pondy. any politician who promises they’re the alternate should come out and say why they’re the alternative candidate.

what exactly are they going to do to make this state rich? what are their plans? how exactly are they going to make the lifestyle of the people rich?

what are their plans to take that state’s population to $50k per capita in the next 15 years?

how are they going to make it truly federal union of state and shift the balance of power to the state (true to its constitutional union of state) by making it self sufficient? what are those goals? give us a 10 year plan to achieve that without impacting the poor.

i want that. otherwise, meh.

if you’re not saying all of that and just focusing on overlying policies - you’re merely competing against existing parties with the same thing they’re also running with.

you might be a great leader. but will you be able to form a great team with a fan club which is used to aggressive actor against actor attacks?

politics is different. news monopoly is different.
public perception is different. the team you form shouldn’t have loose tongues - which will be used to decimate your image in public.

the chances that they can even survive seasoned political parties it wing itself is low.

then the existing parties grassroot level infra is a machine.

i have zero reason to have bias since i am not a part of tn. i will take a popcorn and enjoy.

breakdown of pondicherry’s 2024-25 budget: all figures are in inr.

revenue:

- local resources: 6,914.66 crore.
- central assistance: 3,268.98 crore.
- borrowing (market, nabard, huidco): 2,066.36 crore.

expenditure:

- total expenditure: 12,700 crore.
- revenue expenditure: 10,969.89 crore.
- capital expenditure: 1,730.2 crore.

major expenditure categories:

- salaries: 2,574 crore.
- pensions: 1,388 crore.
- loan repayment/interest: 1,817 crore.
- power purchase: 2,509 crore.
- welfare a chemes: 1,900 crore

few things which i did.

[a qualification: these are proposed budget changes, not spending changes implemented in government. the savings and growth targets need a costed model, including transition costs, before they can be treated as achievable outcomes.]

i decreased spending.

actually ended up increasing welfare schemes while reducing welfare spends that ended up providing both heavily nutritious veg and non veg breakfast and lunch for children in schools (at a baseline expanded welfare in every scope while expenditure dropped - more on how. there was too many wastage)

decreased reliance of pondy on tourism and increased it on increasing it/it’s and manufac industry

increased pondy’s own energy sustainability rather than buying power.

ran up numbers and let me show some graphs

(will release the entire thing later on how i did this)

Original proposed Pondicherry revenue and expenditure charts

whenever you talk about a political candidate alternative,

bring to me someone who knows what state their current state/country is and who is presenting a solid plan on how they’re going to turn that place up.

what’s the plan?

you don’t even have to get the solution. atleast quantifying the problems we have is the first step.

as soon as you identify the problem, and you’re showing enough agency and willingness to solve it, you’ll find brilliant minds willing to join hands with you to help form the solution.

that’s good governance.

everything else is a mask.

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