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India News: NEW DELHI: In a fresh attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that Iraq's dictator S.
My mic was turned off in the Parliament, claims Rahul Gandhi ANI | Updated: Mar 16, 2021 22:17 IST
New Delhi [India], March 16 (ANI): In a fresh attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday claimed that his mic was turned off in the Parliament.
Gandhi, in a conversation with Professor Ashutosh Varshney of USA s Brown University, said, BJP MPs in Parliament tell me that they cannot have an open discussion. They say they are told what to say. My mic was turned off in the Parliament and it was not telecasted in on television. The situation in India is worse, we do not need a stamp regarding that, Gandhi said when asked about the Electoral autocracy status given to India by a US-based organisation recently.
Saddam, Gaddafi used to win elections too , says Rahul Gandhi ANI | Updated: Mar 17, 2021 02:55 IST
New Delhi [India], March 17 (ANI): Lambasting the Centre over reports claiming decline of democracy in India, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said Iraq s dictator Saddam Hussein and Libya s Muammar Gaddafi used to win elections as well. Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi used to have elections. They used to win them. It wasn t like they weren t voting but there was no institutional framework to protect that vote, Rahul Gandhi said in online interaction with Brown University.
He made this comment while reacting to a question of Professor Ashutosh Varshney of Brown University on reports by Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), a Sweden-based institute which downgraded India to an electoral autocracy, citing a decline in democratic freedoms and Freedom House analysis which shifted India s status from a free country to partly-free.