Cash transfers, as analyst Pratap Bhanu Mehta says, can never be a substitute for governance.

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"We can endure neither our condition nor the means to overcome it, " tweeted analyst Pratap Bhanu Mehta, quoting Polybius, the Greek historian, after the events last night.

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"I think Rahul Gandhi is making the biggest mistake in thinking that political mobilisation and outreach can happen independently of your record in government, " analyst Pratap Bhanu Mehta, has said.

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