A report last week by Sweden’s International IDEA has flagged India's democratic backslide. The report cites Brazil, India and the United States as the biggest backsliders globally, writes Seema Chishti.
In a resolution on the political situation in the country, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) said that India is no longer regarded as a democracy, and has earned the label of an “electoral autocracy”.
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Khela Shesh: Didi just another sacrifice in Modi’s Ashwamedha April 9, 2021, 4:57 PM IST
The author is a senior journalist and a political commentator.
Life has come a full circle for Mamata Banerjee. She was saved from political oblivion by the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee but today a BJP prime minister is out to annihilate her politically. Pranab Mukherjee called her a born rebel who “has an aura about her which is difficult to explain but impossible to ignore”. He gave her the credit for building her own career – “fearlessly and aggressively – and what she is today is the outcome of her own struggle, labour and hard work”. But now in the battle for Bengal, which is an acid test of BJP- RSS’s Machiavellian game plan, she has put her trust in the non-politician Prashant Kishor. People elect the government they want.