"The Bharatiya Janata Party has used federalism to settle political scores, in the process weakening the nation more than ever before in its independent history.
"The Bharatiya Janata Party has used federalism to settle political scores, in the process weakening the nation more than ever before in its independent history. As we head into the worst economic recession we have known in living memory, it is the lack of leadership which is being cruelly felt in New Delhi," says Professor Balveer Arora, Chairman, Centre for Multilevel Federalism and former professor of political science at Jawaharlal Nehru University.