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This is something that’s hard for someone like me to know (living outside India and no experience in setting up a business in India)

Does it make a difference if same party is in power in center and state?

The general consensus I see is that it doesn’t make such a big difference (everyone compares to Gujarat which is reaping the benefits of good admin over last 20 years). Current states have a lot of rot to remove and any EoDB efforts won’t be apparent. Is this a correct understanding of the situation?

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I'm not too familiar with India either, but I figured that if the same party were in power in Maharasthra, then they would be able to apply pressure to the civil servants who were witholding their signatures (perhaps in exchange for non traceable Electoral Bond purchases)

Also, India has a unique federal structure where states can override central laws.

Override union laws ? Do you have examples of that ? You mean ignore them ? Ignoring laws , orders has happened and either the union government has not sued the state for various reasons or cases are still sitting in court.

There are some powers in the shared list , where the state can specify its own rules etc.

Over time it’s trending towards union control for example removing VAT and replacing with GST etc

No no no. Electoral bond purchase won't get you you anywhere.

Before the electoral bonds, all political funding happened through cash. Which was more non traceable than the current electoral bonds.

But yes the ideology of the party matters.

Central government is pro business and they have proved it in Gujarat by making it a lot easier to NA land in Gujarat.

State Government (esp. INC) is communist and anti-free-market anti-business party which seeks to create as many hurdles as possible.

Not too much difference on a transaction level, policy level perhaps , there may be contradictory rules etc.

Delhi has notably had lot of challenges because of different governments , but Delhi administration is not typical state government, it is like Washington DC , there are special provisions as it is the capital region

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