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| Will try bold tax experiment |
| Will try bold tax experiment for Delhi: the Arvind Kejriwal interview
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| INDIA
, 5-February-2014
4:54:54 AM |
| Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi's new chief minister, stormed to power in the national capital in December on an anti-corruption platform.
Last month, Mr Kejriwal barred foreign retailers from setting up shop in Delhi, a blow to the union government's efforts to attract overseas investment and revive the economy. Kejriwal's government has also offered free water and slashed electricity prices, moves critics have derided as populist and dangerous.
He spoke about his economic policies in this interview.
Can you share some of your thoughts on the economy? Do you see the Aam Aadmi Party as a socialist party?
We actually don't understand all that - socialism, communalism, capitalism, right, left, centre. We are common people, we have our own problems and we want solutions. If someone comes and tells me I have a problem of water, if someone comes and tells me that, hey look, there is a solution in Left, we will be very happy to borrow it from there. Or if someone else comes and says, look, there is a solution in Right, there is a solution in capitalism, we will borrow it from there. We are not wedded to any ideology.
You're an expert on tax. What do you think...
I think it ought to be simplified to a large extent. It has been made so complex, and in Delhi, we will try some experiment. Today only we had long meetings on can we do some very bold experiments in Delhi as far as taxation is concerned.
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