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As Freebie Debate Rages, What Defines 'Revdi'? Nobody Really Knows. -Kaushal Shroff

-TheWire.in

There are no watertight categorisations that clearly demarcate where a subsidy ends and a so-called freebie begins.

Amaravati: A maelstrom has been brewing in the political landscape over the precise markers of a subsidy and a freebie. Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered the first blow last month when he pointed out that other political parties were propagating a “revdi culture” which was dangerous to the youth as well as to the prospects of development in the country.

The political barb seems to have hit its mark considering that Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party head Arvind Kejriwal, without skipping a beat, delivered an impassioned rebuttal, demanding to know if providing quality education and medical services could be considered as doling out revdi.

The matter escalated further when the Supreme Court, in its wisdom, decided to admit a PIL by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay. The PIL, which seeks a clampdown on “irrational freebies” is premised on simplistic and unrefined arguments and betrays its own classist tendencies abundantly. For instance, it states that people who go for work under MNREGA, reportedly, only “chit-chat and play mobile games without doing the work” adding that freebies only “create/inculcate laziness among people, shattering the work force of the state”.

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