Hypothetically, if one were to ask me what it is that needs to happen to make India a land of truly free people within the political and legal system that exists at the moment, I would share the following incomplete, work-in-progress list with them;

1. Indian constitution

•Repeal the first amendment before anything else

•Delete part 4

•Delete part 17

•Delete Article 39(b) and 39(c)

•Remove the words 'socialist' and 'secular' from the preamble

•Make right to property a fundamental right again

•Reinterpret right to life (article 21) and remove positive law elements like 'right to reputation' that lead to incorrigible laws like defamation

•Make changes to the 7th, 11th and 12th schedules to have as little as possible in the union and state lists and as much as possible in the local govt lists.

•Presidents to get directly elected and to be made the head of the executive and the PM being relegated to the right role of being the head of the legislature alone.

2. Agencies and ministries

•Abolish the RBI, ED, FIU, IT Dept

•Abolish the HR&CE departments

•Privatise and disinvest PSU's and state-owned land

•Where there is an insane amount of political pressure, explore public-private partnerships as initial steps before fully introducing market pressures

•Privatise securities exchanges

•Abolish APMC's and mandis

•Number of ministries cannot be more than 10 on all federal levels

•Affirmative action and reservations will have to be removed completely

3. Polices and Acts

•Repeal FEMA and legal tender laws

•Repeal the Essential commodities act

•Allow anyone in the country to establish an exchange platform for equities, derivatives and bonds

•Establish laws that enable free banking and ensure that collateralised deposits are possible

•Liberalise agriculture and abolish the mandis and price control

•Remove land ceiling

•Repeal the land acquisition act

•Stop putting out finance acts and making the annual budget a form of pseudo-planning of the socialist kind

•Abolish 90% of taxes: goods and services, property, excise, service, capital gains, customs, cess, surcharge, value added, gift, entertainment, professional and land revenue

•Relax gun licensing rules

•Of course, any special privileges granted to any religious or communal group will have to go because everyone has to be treated equally by the rule of law.

There are likely so many more things that I have missed, so I'll keep adding them in the replies section later on if and when I find them.