India’s 108th rank in electoral democracy globally: Swedish think tank report – Latest News | Breaking News

The Sweden-based Varieties of Democracy Institute has said in a report that India has been one of the ‘worst dictators’ in the last ten years.
The report states that “India’s ruling BJP under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is suppressing religious freedom. Defiance in the Face of Autocracy was released on 3 March.
According to the report, India is one of the countries “seeing the most dramatic increase” in political polarization. The others are Afghanistan, Brazil and Myanmar.
The think tank ranked India 108th globally for electoral democracy, below countries such as Tanzania, Bolivia, Mexico, Singapore and Nigeria. The report states that “toxic levels of polarization prevent cooperation between elites and Incites citizens to abandon democratic principles to keep their leader in power and achieve their preferred policies.” “Thus, toxic levels of polarization often increase support for authoritarian leaders and reinforce their conservative agenda.”
Two years ago, the same group said that India had become an “electoral autocracy”.
The V-Dem Institute is an independent research organization founded in 2014 by Professor Stephen I. Lindbergh that studies the merits of government. Many government agencies, the World Bank and several research institutes fund this institution.
The think tank claims to have created the largest global dataset on democracy, covering 202 countries from 1789 to 2022. It says it measures “hundreds of different characteristics of democracy” with more than 31 million data points, including about 4,000 scholars and experts by country.

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