is india becoming dictatorship and why?
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NO INDIA WILL NOT BECOME A DIXTATORSHIP COUNTRY.IT WILL BE A DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY.
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Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured a historic majority in India’s lower house of parliament earlier this year - and now his only serious rival has resigned, raising questions about the future of the world’s largest democracy.
Modi won 303 seats in May, 251 ahead of his rival Rahul Gandhi, president of the opposition Indian National Congress (INC).
Last week, Gandhi stood down, saying: “As president of the Congress party, I am responsible for the loss of the 2019 election,” the FT reports.
Despite admitting his own shortcomings as opposition leader, Gandhi also warned that Indian democracy may be under threat - but stopped short of using the word dictatorship.
He claimed that the BJP was “systematically crushing the voice of the Indian people” by undermining democratic institutions, and that Modi’s re-election would result in “unimaginable levels of violence and pain for India”, said AP.
“Our democracy has been fundamentally weakened. There is a real danger that from now on, elections will go from being a determinant of India's future to a mere ritual,” he said.
But leaders of other opposition parties have been more forthright, citing the increase in hate crimes since Modi came to power in 2014 and his overreaching control of media outlets.
In March, Delhi’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, compared Modi to Adolf Hitler and claimed that “anyone who questions the Modi government is labelled an ‘anti-national’”. And former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah claimed that a second term would see Modi “become a dictator and it is doubtful if there will be elections in the future”.
Meanwhile, political analyst Pratap Bhanu Mehta told the BBC that “when people trust each other and distrust their leaders, you get democracy”, but that “when people distrust each other and completely trust their leaders, you get dictatorship.
“I think we are at the second moment right now.”
But is India - often heralded as the “world’s largest democracy” - really on the brink of descending into a dictatorship in the hands of Modi? Or is he simply riding a populist wave?