Election Commission-BJP Nexus Is All too Clear â and Bengal Is the Latest Example
Since the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Nirvachan Sadan has acted more as an appendage of the ruling elite â perfectly in line with the classical populist authoritarian playbook.
Election Commission of India.
How Democracies
Die, Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt put it succinctly: democracies die at the hands of elected leaders who subvert the very process that brought them to power. The elected authoritarians slowly, but steadily, weaken the critical institutions like the judiciary and press and the established political norms.
The authoritarians employ ingenious methods to get re-elected with a bigger majority. That will give them not only legitimacy but an aura of invincibility. Of over two dozen global studies on poll rigging,