Is Narendra Modi dismantling democracy in India? | UpFront
•Mar 19, 2021
India, long considered the world’s largest democracy, slid down the democracy scale this month, with Freedom House classifying
•Mar 19, 2021
India, long considered the world’s largest democracy, slid down the democracy scale this month, with Freedom House classifying it as "partly free", and the V-Dem Institute calling it an "electoral autocracy" under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
In this week’s UpFront, we challenge BJP spokesman Syed Zafar Islam on the government’s recent crackdowns on dissent.
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