Electoral autocracy: A new term

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2022-01-07T00:24:04+05:00 Ali Shah

The US and India, with their false claims to be the largest democracies of the world, are drowning gradually. The US accepted its defeat by the Afghan Taliban after staying 20 years in Afghanistan and wasted a lot of money for no reason while India faced an economic collapse, becoming Asia’s worst-performing currency.
In democratic states of the world, the residents of such territories are well aware of the term “electoral autocracy” which negates the independence of the common person who has the right to raise their voice against the rule of justice.
It’s a form of government in which a country is ruled by a person or group with total power and no one is allowed to go against them.
India is the world’s largest supposedly non-democratic state where an electoral autocracy has been prevailing since 2014.
This is based on an independent research institute named V-Dem from the University of Gothenburg, which has published a report worldwide listing the name of the democratic states, actually involved in electoral autocracy.
The V-Dem report explains the extreme decline in democratic freedoms which has occurred and was observed after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) victory in 2014 elections against Indian National Congress. BJP nominated Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India.
The first report was published in 2017, naming those countries along with copious data, where the word democracy is meaningless while people are bound to obey the orders of the ruler.
This report, which is based on updated information, observed that India is one of the leading states where democracy is breathing its last.
As per the report by Bloomberg, the Indian rupee has become Asia’s worst-performing currency because India is drowning and is suffering rapid depreciation while foreign investors are pulling back their investments from the Indian stock market.
With the US Dollar rising against the Indian currency by 2.2 percent within this quarter, Indian investors have no choice except to take back their wealth of $4 billion from the Indian market. The report claims that it is one of the worst situations for a country to face.
Reportedly, the US is aiming to strengthen its ally and drag it out from such economical problems. Media reports have indicated that the US government has decided to shift around 200 of its international heavy production brands from China to India.
The Indian economy is collapsing and has become Asia’s worst-performing currency, even though it is the world’s largest democracy; involved in “Electoral Autocracy” since 2014, but is acceptable for the world’s superpower, while Pakistan has tried its best to be acceptable and is struggling to maintain its decades’-long relationship with the US.

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