India, Dec. 3 -- Will regional protectionism, as advocated by political parties as the answer to joblessness and an example of neo-federalism, deliver a further blow to the already distressed economy ? Worse, will "locals first for local jobs" forever change the idea of India, challenging as it does the Constitution that guarantees freedom to work without discrimination? The politics of migration has clearly become an electoral tool for State parties and is helping them find acceptability with micro-bubbles of jingoism and an impractical module of subsistence economy. Now the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government is advocating an 80 per cent job quota for locals in the private sector and one can hardly fault it considering there are too man...