Tag: Democracy

India Is an Elected Dictatorship Where Constitutionalism Is Under Attack From Within

The challenges of our present discontents are marked by the collapse of the system of checks and balances to discipline constitutional power.

Subversion of Parliamentary Democracy: Concerned Citizens Groups release a “charge sheet” against the government of India

A collective of citizens and organisations have together released a “charge sheet” against the government of India showcasing how this regime, into its second term has subverted parliamentary democracy

“Mockery of democracy”: Supreme Court on Chandigarh Mayoral Election misconduct

The Bench orders for the presence of the Presiding Officer at next hearing for defacing ballot papers during the said elections to explain his behaviour; states an appropriate interim order by Punjab and Haryana HC was warranted in the matter

Sustaining Democratic Spirit: Movements and Yatras

As massive propaganda and mobilization for Ram Temple inauguration...

Under PM Modi India’s democracy slid to autocracy: Human Rights Watch

The latest report released the Human Rights Watch has criticised India’s government for not protecting the rights of minorities and has presented a detailed list of accounts from issues concerning press freedom, sexual abuse, and the ethnic conflict in Manipur.

A Silenced Parliament: Impact of deleted questions on democratic representation

Democracy muted, deleted questions rob citizens of vital governance insights

By holding up bills, are Governors undermining democracy? 

Supreme Court intervention in constitutionally mandated procedures should spark concerns about India's democratic framework

The principles of democracy can’t be scarified at altar of majoritarianism: Justice Govind Mathur

Justice Mathur’s keynote address at the 11th Rajasthan state convention of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties in Bhilwara on April 1 and 2.

India ‘One of the Worst Autocratisers in the Last 10 Years,’ Says 2023 V-Dem Report

Of the 42 countries listed as “autocratising” at the end of 2022, a trend that began in the world in 2020, the new V-Dem reports lists India as one of the worst; India in the bottom 40-50% on its Liberal Democracy Index (LDI) at rank 97, India also ranks 108 on the Electoral Democracy Index (EDI) and 123 on the Egalitarian Component Index (ECI)

If India is the ‘mother of democracy’ should not dissent be the first born child?

For over the two years, with the last bid aimed at white-washing international indictments of its regime, the Modi 2.0 regime has been propagating India as the ‘mother of democracy’

A Time to Defend Democracy in India

Social activists, academics, students, journalists and opposition leaders have faced more arrests, harassment, intimidation and assaults in recent times compared to any other time during the last four decades

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