Tag: autocracy

This weekend, the leaders of the world’s most powerful countries will gather in New Delhi for the Group of 20 summit to discuss pressing economic issues, including climate change, sustainable development, and food security. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has created fanfare for the summit by unveiling its chipper slogan: ...

Leaders of eight Opposition parties wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday alleging misuse of central agencies against them after Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia was arrested earlier this week. The Central Bureau of Investigation arrested the Aam Aadmi Party leader on February 26 in a ...

I like how this 2 month old article is only now becoming relevant because of how much Modi screwed up the pandemic situation so the downvote brigade can't effectively cover up all articles related to India.Also people really out here defending his position because he was democratically elected and ...

Do India’s 1.4 billion people still live in a real democracy? To the average Indian, the question may seem ludicrous. Pick up an Indian newspaper or turn on the television, and it can feel like all the country does is lurch from one noisy election to the next. At ...

An analytical research by Sweden-based Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute shows that India, the world largest democracy, has turned into an “electoral autocracy”. The research institute had last year said that the Bharatiya Janata Party now closely resembles a “typical governing party in an autocracy”.V-Dem measures uncertainty associated with ...

Good morning to all of you today. The budget session of the Indian Parliament began this year on January 31, 2020. Coincidentally, it was also one day after the World Health Organisation announced the Covid-19 pandemic to be a public health emergency of international concern. Originally scheduled to run ...

With Parliament becoming a “ghost town” due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the judiciary having ‘abdicated’ its role, accountability mechanisms have become diluted and the central executive has become all-powerful and given free rein to do whatever it pleases”, former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court A.P. Shah ...