Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said India is no longer a democratic country.
Citing a media report about a ‘Swedish institute’s Democracy Report’, which “downgraded” India’s status as “electoral autocracy”, the former Congress president claimed “India is no longer a democratic country.”
Earlier last week, India reacted to the US-based watchdog Freedom House, which in its latest report has also downgraded India’s status as a democracy and free society to partly free.
Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said, “Political judgement of freedom house are as inaccurate and distorted as their maps, example on the Covid situation there is widespread appreciation of the response of our recovery rate and low fatality rate.”
Freedom House, which is also funded by the US government also drew criticism for showing a distorted India map on the cover of its report.
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