How difficult is the transition from unitary to federal system going to be?
We have seen a number of countries have successfully moved from unitary to federal. The countries like Belgium and Spain have done it very smoothly and Italy is heading towards it. However, what is required is political consensus at the time of moving to federalism. I would probably say that here are fewer consensuses than those countries I have been talking about. You have very particular problems as you don’t start the process with the sense of identifying what the historic problems are. Lots of the issues in those countries were not which are going to be provinces and how the provinces are going to be empowered and kinds of responsibilities they do have. You have discussions and debates here is the sizes of provinces and their responsibilities. You need to decide these very difficult questions. They are not unique but definitely difficult ones. After India was created and it decided to redraw the boundaries of states, it is still creating a new state. Similarly, Nigeria has redrawn
