New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has claimed India is no longer a democratic country, quoting media reports on Swedish Institute’s democracy report that downgraded India.
“India is no longer a democratic country,” Rahul Gandhi said on Twitter quoting a news report which read “India now as autocratic as Pakistan, worse than Bangladesh.”
This comes after another global report by US government-funded NGO Freedom House downgraded India’s status from ‘free’ to ‘partly free’.
The government has strongly rebutted the Freedom House report and called it ‘misleading, incorrect and misplaced’, while asserting that the country has well established democratic practices.