Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, a staunch critic of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, on Thursday said India no longer remained a democratic...
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, a staunch critic of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, on Thursday said India no longer remained a democratic country.
The politician shared a news clip of a research project by Sweden-based Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute, which said that India’s status had been lowered from the “world’s largest democracy” to an “electoral autocracy” under the Narendra Modi government. It said that India was now as autocratic as Pakistan in censorship and worse than Bangladesh and Nepal.
“India is no longer a democratic country,” Gandhi wrote on Twitter.
India is no longer a democratic country. pic.twitter.com/iEwmI4ZbRp
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) March 11, 2021
Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sitaram Yechury also shared the report on Twitter and highlighted some of its key findings about the democratic backsliding in India. “What a shame,” he wrote.
India is now an “electoral autocracy”.
— Sitaram Yechury (@SitaramYechury) March 11, 2021
“Modi-led government in India has used laws on sedition, defamation and counter terrorism to silence critics.”
“India’s level of liberal democracy registered a steep decline since its high in 2013.”
What a shame.https://t.co/6MZ2O5Mkrf pic.twitter.com/2XLrJSCbQf
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