{"id":72318,"date":"2020-12-10T17:03:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T11:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=72318"},"modified":"2021-05-08T15:05:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T09:35:57","slug":"indias-diminishing-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-diminishing-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges threatening India\u2019s democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Context \u2013<\/b>\u00a0With various issues arising, there is an opinion that democracy takes a hit and policymakers must take note of the drift.<span lang=\"en-IN\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the areas of concern for India?\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Recession<\/strong> &#8211; The Indian economy is in recession and is among the worst-performing among major nations<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cybersecurity attack<\/strong>&#8211; India ranked second only to the US among the countries most impacted by the <strong>ransomware<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ransomware<\/strong> is a form of\u00a0malware\u00a0that encrypts a victim&#8217;s files. The attacker then demands a ransom from the victim to restore access to the data upon payment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong>Concerns with India\u2019 foreign relation<\/strong>&#8211;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>India-China dispute<\/strong>&#8211; China unwillingness to reach a reasonable settlement along the Line of Actual Control.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India-Pakistan relations<\/strong>&#8211; China\u00a0and\u00a0Pakistan have signed\u00a0a\u00a0new military memorandum\u00a0of\u00a0understanding\u00a0to\u00a0boost\u00a0their already close defence\u00a0relationship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong>West Asia<\/strong>&#8211; India has to balance its ties with all regional power in west Asia<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>India\u2019s close relationship with Israel is another sore point with west Asia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>What are the Internal actions seem like threatening democracy in India?<\/b><span lang=\"en-IN\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Revoking of Article 370- <\/strong>The government abolished the article that gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcates the state into two separate union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act- <\/strong>The CAA is disturbing because it makes problematic distinctions between different groups of people based on religion and is pursuing a divide and rule policy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Electoral wins at any cost- <\/strong>Winning at any cost has become the sole motif of certain parties.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The election is turning into conflict zones, they have become tinderboxes for communal, caste, political and other forms of violence.<\/li>\n<li>Majority versus the minority has become the stock-in-trade of some parties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Constitutional protections and principles of natural justice as also freedom of the individual are at risk<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Love jihad<\/strong>&#8211; UP Cabinet\u00a0cleared a draft ordinance\u00a0against forceful inter-faith conversions \u2014 or the so-called \u201clove jihad\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><strong>Restrictions on Social media freedom- <\/strong>India is beginning to clamp down on social media platforms and enacts draconian laws.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Farmer\u2019s protest- <\/strong>Latest example of imposing a measure without due discussion and acceptance of farmer and opposition.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><strong>Way forward-<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Policymaker needs to acknowledge public fears and reassure people, especially in periods of uncertainty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Democracy works on the principle of checks and balances. It is these checks and balances that\u00a0prevent democracy from turning into majoritarianism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context \u2013\u00a0With various issues arising, there is an opinion that democracy takes a hit and policymakers must take note of the drift.\u00a0 What are the areas of concern for India?\u00a0 Recession &#8211; The Indian economy is in recession and is among the worst-performing among major nations Cybersecurity attack&#8211; India ranked second only to the US&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-diminishing-democracy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Challenges threatening India\u2019s democracy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":72328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,1351,1310,9],"tags":[1333,1295],"class_list":["post-72318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-public","tag-ir_0","tag-po_1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/challenges-threatening-Democracy.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700776117,"cached_date":1703106092},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}