Why centre state relations are very important in ensuring success to a fedaration ? Explain in context to India.
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The recommendations of the Commission on Centre-State Relations, if implemented, should help bring about a significant improvement in relations among union, state and local governments. But this by itself will not be enough. The British system of non-fixed tenure of government and the 'winner takes all' type of territorial constituency based elections, together with the inability to evolve even after 38 years a healthy British type of two-party system, have given rise to extreme 'politics of confrontation' and special problems of union-state relations. Against this background, this paper argues that a time has come to give serious thought to modifying the position of the council of ministers that we have borrowed from Britain to one that obtains in Switzerland