4. Another dramatic shift that is happening in India today is in the realm of political structure. Since the late 1980s India has essentially been built on a bottom-up political structure, wherein electoral experimentation has always first started at the local/state level and then replicated nationally. One consequence of this phenomenon was that local satraps were of immense importance for the political growth of a party. Thus in the last 20 odd years we have seen some very powerful Chief Ministers who virtually ran their states independently. BJP adapted quite well to this federated political structure and gave rise to many powerful state leaders, but Congress struggled to internalize this political reality and started to lose its base in a vast number of states (not the least in the heartland). Now the tables have turned, Congress is finally getting ready to adapt to a federated political setup, while India, dare I say, has entered a new cycle. Today the Indian political structure is increasingly resembling a top-down system wherein the national is the new local. Chief Ministers are slowly losing their primacy. BJP is going into both Maharashtra and Haryana state elections without a chief ministerial face and this could be the way forward. What matters now are issues of governance and working in tandem with the centre, or as PM Modi puts is succinctly, “State government and centre should be ek aur ek gyarah, not ek aur ek do”!