View: Is consensus or disruption a path to good governance?

New Delhi: Continuing with his style of disruptive governance, US President Donald Trump on Friday fired General Charles Brown Jr from the apex military post of Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, and named Lt Gen Dan Caine as his successor subject to Senate confirmation. On the same day, Kashyap Patel was sworn in as the ninth Director of FBI, which is equivalent to India’s Intelligence Bureau and Central Bureau of Investigation.

In his final term as President, Trump is making rapid changes in government and governance structures, keeping in mind his promise to his Republican electorate and the political retribution meted out to him personally by the previous Biden administration. Given that India is the world’s largest and the US the world’s richest democracy and the two are natural allies, can the disruptive model work in India rather than the consensus model for better governance and deliveries is the million dollar question.