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answersplease77 t1_j54srn4 wrote

How do they seriously still call India a democracy? Their courts and police are run by a group of corrupt far-right ultra hindu nationals who are in charge of the country? They issued citizen law which plainly discriminated against Indian muslims, they repeatedly called for genocide against them as well as destroyed their houses and took their lands. Numerous reports of rapes and crimes against Indian muslims have not seen justice. What happened to that journalist who stomped on the body of a muslim man who was protesting police from taking his land?

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kepler456 t1_j56c5a4 wrote

Sad to say but it is still a democracy, the majority continue to vote for this. This is the bigger shame isn't it. If it was an autocracy you could at least say there are a few evil people ruling the country, but what can you say now?

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answersplease77 t1_j5acgh9 wrote

but the police and courts are controlled by corrupt officials from the top of government. In democracy they let them speak and criticize government and find corrupt officials accountable. Here you only have Modi ass kisser goverment officials, 30+ refused to be interveiwed for saftey, people afraid and speak anonmously with changed voice, and journalists and police who spoke about the corruption were jailed for life and killed like this documentary showed. This is like any other repressive regieme. Absolute freaking shame what India has become

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kepler456 t1_j5e8gvp wrote

Yes, you are not wrong at all. But in a democracy the members of state are the ones elected. A good and functioning democracy has all the features you speak of. India is not a good democracy, but for now it still is a democracy since the members representing the population on the governmental front are elected by the people.

The judiciary was never elected by the people nor is the media. Them being elected is what you would expect in a functioning democracy, but unfortunately that is not what defines the word.

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Eric1491625 t1_j55q9vk wrote

>How do they seriously still call India a democracy?

>discriminated against Indian muslims

Because that's what democracy is. In its purest form, tyranny of the majority.

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netenyahoo t1_j5awzbz wrote

India is very much a democracy. Majority of Modi supporters voted him because of these things. Infact many previous supporters of Modi hate Modi now because he is not doing enough and trying to be soft.

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