The Congress leader quoted the ThinkTank report as saying that India had been transformed into an ‘elected autocracy’.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday tweeted a news report on the findings of a Swedish institute claiming that India had turned into “elected autocracy” to question the country’s status as a democratic country.
“Gandhi is no longer a democratic country,” Mr. Gandhi tweeted, tagging a news report about the Swedish institute’s latest discovery.
Sweden-based V-Dame on Wednesday [Varieties of Democracy] The institute released a report that advanced India as a democracy and placed it below neighbors like Bangladesh and Nepal.
The persecution of the media and the frequent use of sedition lawsuits and defamation cases explained why India is being classified as ‘elected autocracy’.
The report noted that the global decline of liberal democratic countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America over the past 10 years was ‘stagnant’.
Apart from India, countries like Brazil and Turkey are among the top 10 countries which slipped in the rankings which were part of the G20 countries.
The latest report on India’s democracy comes just days after Freedom House, another non-governmental organization in the United States, which had ‘partially liberated’ India’s position in terms of political rights and civil liberties.
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