For instance, in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s yearly Democracy Index produced in February, India is compartmentalized as one of the world’s 52 ‘flawed democracies. Its chalk up plummeted from 7.92 in 2014 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to his reign to 6.61 last year, and its global designation dropped from a 27th to a staggering 53rd among 167 countries contemplated in 2020. The report converses about the mounting pressure on India’s democratic conventions, with democratic retrogress by the jurisdictions and repressions of civil liberties and a religious element to the perception of Indian autonomy.
Destruction of democracy by subduing voices of protests and suppressing minorities
Nonetheless, with the rising terrorization of journalists, the growing suppression of human rights coordination and horrifyingly increasing attacks on minor communities particularly the Muslims. With perceptible furtherance in the downturn since Modi’s re-election in 2019, India gives the impression of being to have forsaken its prospective to succour as a global democratic figurehead, upgrading narrow Hindu nationalist partialities at the expense of its establishing values of encompassing and promulgating equal privilege for all.
How democracy has slowly changed to electoral autocracy
For instance, The Modi Government has transmuted into an ‘electoral autocracy,’ retorted the Varieties of Democracy design which is stationed in Gothenburg, Sweden, in its yearly scrutinization of the health of democracy worldwide published in mid-March. It’s also guilty of mishandling and disparaging perturbation laws. India’s National Crime Records Bureau statistics show a 165% jump in agitated cases between 2016 and 2019.
Meanwhile, India’s elections remain largely free and fair, but the decrement of democratic, secular and federative gaps between elections is cause for disquietude. As if to ascertain the phytologies they’ve detected in India’s disinclined body politic and the phlebotomization of its liberal and numerous global brands, Pratap Mehta renounced lately as a professor from Ashoka University outside Delhi.
