Minimum Trump, maximum Modi: Their contrasting views on civil servants

For Modi/BJP supporters, Deep State is some amorphous entity, including global foundations, Left-activist corporations and investors, and also intelligence proliferations working in cahoots with them

At around the same juncture in history when Donald Trump has armed Elon Musk with a flamethrower to gut his bureaucracy from inside, the Modi government has notified the 8th Pay Commission.

 

The first is a dramatic, if chaotic, campaign to minimise government and cut costs. The second is a significant expansion of the government and wage bills, timed with the 2029 elections. Both won power, more or less, on the same promise. We’d prefer Mr Modi’s words: Minimum government, maximum governance.

 

You need no better evidence of the dramatic divergence in the two leaders’ approach to governance and its