Empower and ensure the creation of strong institutions

 Good observations and ideas.

Now, usually in large democracies the difference between ' government' and ' party in  power' becomes very thin. 

So, all ideologies and political compulsions of the party in power spill over into many areas of governance. 

The best a leader at the helm can do is to reign in within the party those in positions of power to prioritise governance over vote bank politics or party's ideological imperatives.

Instruct them to navigate diplomatically and do the balancing act.

This is where democracies, FOE etc are burdens sometimes where decision making has to be an 'appease-all show' or at least appear to be one.   

But a long-term solution would be to really empower and ensure the creation of strong institutions with total autonomy manned by people with high levels of professionalism and integrity ( of course, a rare commodity).

Other way to go about it may be to have absolute power with a very fragile opposition or a sensible opposition  which will not compromise on these three aspects:-

1. National interest, 

2. Economic development and 

3. Social welfare 

At present India has many benefits internally and globally on several aspects but it suffers from lack of decentralisation of power, excessive control, lingering redtapism and has to reconcile with a very unfriendly media mafia.