Sitaram Yechury made a statement by a Swedish institution that reduced the status of India’s democracy
Report of a Sweden Institute on Democracy Status of india In the backdrop of the news of reducing the CPI (M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday said that India has now become an ‘electoral dictator’. Citing the report, Yechury said, “The Modi-led government in India has used sedition, defamation and anti-terrorism laws to silence the voices of critics.” He said that the level of liberal democracy of India has declined.
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Before Sweden’s report, Freedom House, an NGO funded by the US government, also reduced India’s status from ‘independent’ to ‘partially independent’, the Indian government has denied the report and called it misleading. is. Earlier, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi also claimed on Thursday that India was no longer a democratic country, citing a report of a Swedish institution. He tweeted a news on Twitter and tweeted, “India is no longer a democratic country”.
The news report mentioned by the Congress leader said that Sweden’s V-Dame Institute’s report on democracy claimed to have transformed India’s ‘world’s largest democracy’ from ‘electoral autocracy’. . A few days before this report, in the report of the American organization ‘Freedom House’, India was described as a ‘partially independent’ country. The government rejected this report and said that it is ‘misleading’, ‘untrue’ and ‘baseless’ and India has well established democratic traditions.
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