Freebies that exist or don’t exist

Faced with increasingly aggressive competitive welfarism and the law of diminishing returns, strategists from all political parties are in a dilemma. They were asked to come up with new vote-attracting promises and include them in their manifestos for the upcoming elections. Free electricity and subsidies to beloved mothers, sisters and unemployed youths are a thing of the past; there is an urgent need to think outside the box. Furthermore, as the amount of free electricity exceeds what citizens actually consume, it is no longer as attractive as it once was. That’s when the corporate-type consultant came up with a brilliant solution that upped the ante! The brilliance of this idea is its simplicity: something more than a freebie to incentivize voters.

Therefore, the re-conceptualization of “free electricity” means that residents will not only be able to enjoy 300 kilowatt-hours of electricity for free every month in the future, but also be paid for these 300 kilowatt-hours of electricity at the current electricity price. Thereafter, it’s easy to extend the same concept to your water bill. In the new scheme, it was natural to be more inclusive, so the scheme which hitherto involved only beloved daughters, sisters and mothers was expanded into a ‘beloved parivar’ scheme associated with ration cards and parivar pehchan patras.

Paying unemployment benefits to young people is a bit tricky, especially as there are growing calls for unemployment to be considered a form of employment, along with unpaid work and domestic work. Therefore, the suggested approach is to rename it as “Yuva Sahay Rashi” and increase it to the WPI Index Government Average Salary commensurate with the qualification. There is a new trend of expanding the promise of “Samman Rashi” to priests; the unanimous view is the promise to build new religious places of all kinds so that more and more people in the service of God can benefit.

There is a rare cordiality between political parties over the question of where all this money will come from; clarification that income tax and goods and services tax will continue to be the foundation of nation (and party) building while being de-prioritized in the budget Basic needs such as urban and rural infrastructure and services, education and health.

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