The Indian Government had announced capital projects worth ₹11.11 lakh crore in its 2024-25 budget, to be spent on infrastructure. With only 3 months remaining in financial year about ₹5 lakh crore worth of projects have been announced so far.
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This means that 65% of the work is expected to be completed between December and March. Is this possible?
Punjab’s political numbers are throwing up a strange contrast, a party that won just 6.6% vote share and 2 out of 117 seats in 2022 now holds 6 out of 7 Rajya Sabha seats from the state after a wave of defections led by Raghav Chadha, with leaders like Ashwani Sharma backing the shift as a sign of growing influence, while the ruling Aam Aadmi Party still dominates the Assembly with over 90 MLAs. As Narendra Modi’s party expands its footprint in Parliament without matching ground strength in Punjab, and Bhagwant Mann dismisses defectors as politically insignificant, does this widening gap between electoral mandate and parliamentary power reflect a smart long-term strategy, or a fragile shortcut that may not hold in 2027 ?
पंजाब की राजनीति में एक अजीब विरोधाभास सामने आ रहा है। 2022 में सिर्फ 6.6% वोट शेयर और 117 में से 2 सीटें जीतने वाली पार्टी अब राज्यसभा की 7 में से 6 सीटों पर काबिज है, वो भी राघव चड्ढा के नेतृत्व में हुए दल-बदल के बाद, और अश्वनी शर्मा जैसे नेता इसे बढ़ते प्रभाव का संकेत बता रहे हैं। दूसरी तरफ, सत्ताधारी आम आदमी पार्टी अभी भी विधानसभा में 90 से ज्यादा विधायकों के साथ मजबूत है। ऐसे में जब नरेंद्र मोदी की पार्टी संसद में अपनी पकड़ बढ़ा रही है लेकिन ज़मीन पर उतनी ताकत नहीं दिख रही, और भगवंत मान इन नेताओं को राजनीतिक रूप से महत्वहीन बता रहे हैं, तो क्या जनादेश और संसदीय ताकत के बीच बढ़ता यह अंतर एक सोची-समझी रणनीति है या 2027 तक कमजोर पड़ने वाला शॉर्टकट ?
With reports of Adesh Partap Singh Kairon possibly moving toward Bharatiya Janata Party, Punjab politics may be entering another phase of realignment before the 2027 elections. Coming from a well-known political family linked to both former Chief Ministers Partap Singh Kairon and Parkash Singh Badal, could such a shift signal that legacy leaders now see new power centres rising in the state ? Or is this less about ideology and more about reading where momentum, influence, and future tickets may lie ? If more established faces begin changing camps, could 2027 become Punjab’s biggest election of political migration rather than political conviction ?
